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Planters Telecommunications Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$140k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$872kCrime & Legal$25kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$25kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$19kHealth$12kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$55,000
SCREVEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$55,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$9,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
OGEECHEE TECH FOUNDATION$5,000
BLUE SKY ACRES$5,000
SCREVEN COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC$2,000
AMIKIDS - SAVANNAH RIVER$1,000
SCREVEN COUNTY 4-H$830
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $5k → 16%BLUE SKY ACRES: $5k → 9%BLUE SKY ACRES: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$967k · 20 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$967k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

50%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    Screven Christian Academy Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +148%
  • CA
    CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • OT
    OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • VP
    VETERANS PARK OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • EH
    EFFINGHAM HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +151%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF COASTAL EMPIRE EFFINGHAM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Family Y Young Men's Christian Association/Ywco of the Csra Inc

Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.

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2
Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation Long County Extension

The mission of Georgia 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and forming attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive and contributing members of society. This mission is…

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3
Morgan County EXTENSION4-H

Orgze and admin 4-h pgrms morgan cty,ga

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4
Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation

to organize and administer 4-H, Agricultural and Natural Resource, and Family and Consumer Science programming in Wilkes County, Georgia

Youth Development
5
Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians Inc

To provide direct services to the community for the advancement and development of girls and young women.

Youth Development
6
Brooks County Extension 4-H

To assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and formating attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive, and contributing members of society. the mission is accomplished through "hands on"…

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7
Bulloch County Extension 4-H

To organize, administer, and oversee 4-H, Agriculture, and Family and Consumer Science programs in Bulloch County, Georgia

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8
Gordon Georgia Youth Science & Technology Center Inc

The gordon youth science and technology center (gystc) is a regional center dedicated to promoting student interest and achievement in science and mathematics. we aim to stimulate a child's interest from an early age to enjoy, not fear,…

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9
Wilcox County EXTENSON4-H

To organize and administer 4-h programs in wilcox county, georgia.

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10
Spartanburg Science Center

To provide science enrichment and interactive educational programs and exhibits to supplement and enhance the science education of children and adults of spartanburg county sc.

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11
Colquitt County Extension 4-H

To organize and administer 4h, agriculture, and family and consumer science programs in colquitt county georgia.

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12
Bleckley County EXTENSION4-H

To organize and administer 4-h, agriculture and natural resources, & family and consumer sciences programs in bleckley county, georgia.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ogeechee Technical College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hawk Enrichment Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCREVEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $391,000 · OtherSCREVEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONEFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $381,000 · OtherEFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION+23 more: $181,080 · Other+23 moreCITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLUE SKY ACRES INC: $8,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesScreven Christian Academy Inc: $29,000 · EducationHawk Enrichment Center: $2,000 · EducationEFFINGHAM HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPEACE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC: $50 · Environment
Other$953,080Human Services$39,500Education$31,000Health$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000Environment$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScreven Christian Academy Inc: $29,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSCREVEN COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC: $13,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SCREVEN COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKY ACRES INC: $8,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEFFINGHAM COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA: $3,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetHawk Enrichment Center: $2,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSCREVEN COUNTY EXTENSION 4-H: $1,580 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Screven Christian Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SCREVEN COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SCREVEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKY ACRES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Hawk Enrichment Center ↗
  • Who funds SCREVEN COUNTY EXTENSION 4-H ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Planters Telecommunications Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Planters Telecommunications Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Planters Telecommunications Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Planters Telecommunications Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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