· Private foundation
Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $423k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mount De Sales Academy | $350,000 |
| Depaul USA | $250,000 |
| New Town Macon | $200,000 |
| Middle Georgia State University | $154,375 |
| St Joseph Catholic School | $68,228 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $11M · revenue +34%
- NMNEWTOWN MACON INC4× · 2020–2024 · $810k · revenue +155%
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC2× · 2019–2020 · $463k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- MOMercer on Missionone grant, 2020 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- DDaybreakone grant, 2020 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
The mission of truett mcconnell university, a georgia baptist university, is to equip students to fulfill the great comission by fostering a christian worldview through a biblically centered education in a family-friendly environment.
The organization provides faculty physicians for the residency training programs of the medical center, navicent health (mcnh) and physicians who are in short supply in the community that are central to the mission of mcnh.
Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…
The methodist home of the south georgia conference, inc. is a multi-site, multipurpose organization that provides residential placement for 165 youth in fiscal year 2025. the main campus is located in macon, georgia with youth living in…
The mission is to mobilize resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug dependency in georgia by increasing recovery capital, with a priority…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
The mission of the georgia gwinnett college foundation is to serve as an advocate for georgia gwinnett college, a unit of the university system of georgia. the foundation's primary objective is to receive, invest, account for, and allocate…
We prepare students in our christian academic community to excel as thoughtful, resourceful, and responsible citizens with a passion for serving god, the church, and the world. we accomplish this through excellent teaching, high…
To partner with tanner health system in providing a continuum of quality healthcare services for all of our citizens through building and strengthening of new and existing philanthropic relationships.
Middle georgia state university foundation strives to improve the lives of people in central georgia by enabling middle georgia state university to achieve extraordinary results. the foundation provides resources to the university and its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Central Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Macon Volunteer Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN MACON INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · John S and James L Knight Foundation · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Martin Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · The Ra Bowen Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Dura Connell Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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