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Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation Inc

Charitable disbursements

$484k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$306kFood & Nutrition$188kHealth$116kPhilanthropy$58kEducation$52kInternational$19kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$234k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $221,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $484,325 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $262,525 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$753k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNSEEN HAND MINISTRIES INC$25,000
GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC$25,000
DAWSON COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC$22,000
THERE'S HOPE FOR THE HUNGRY INC$17,500
MUST MINISTRIES INC$15,000
THE PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC$15,000
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BAPTIST$13,000
SENIOR SERVICES OF NORTH FULTON$12,500
FILL MINISTRIES INC$11,000
HEROES OF FORSYTH COUNTY SHERIFF$10,000
GWINNETT TECH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GA FOUNDATION$10,000
KARE FOR KIDS INC$10,000
OPERATION APPRECIATION INC$7,500
ABOUT FACE USA INC$6,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $20k → 4%BETHANY PLACE INC: $7k → 6%KARE FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST BRENDAN: $15k → 4%SENIOR SERVICES OF NORTH FULTON INC: $21k → 13%THE PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $15k → 4%KARE FOR KIDS INC: $8k → 8%SENIOR SERVICES OF NORTH FULTON: $13k → 13%THE PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $10k → 4%BALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $10k → 4%ACT TOGETHER MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%FORSYTH COUNTY FAMILY HAVEN INC: $8k → 4%FORSYTH COUNTY FAMILY HAVEN INC: $8k → 4%ABOUT FACE USA INC: $7k → 4%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $20k → 13%BALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $6k → 4%ABOUT FACE USA: $6k → 4%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $5k → 13%THE PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $6k → 4%FORSYTH COUNTY FAMILY HAVEN INC: $6k → 4%ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHRIST REDEEME: $20k → 4%ST VINCENT DE PAUL GOOD SHEPHERD: $15k → 4%ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHRIST REDEEME: $7k → 4%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$743k · 27 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$743k
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-9%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +97%
  • TP
    The Place of Forsyth County Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +13%
  • MM
    Must Ministries Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -64%
  • CF
    CUMMING FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Appling County Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.

Food & Nutrition
2
Just Us Ministires Inc

Providing groceries for those in need without cost to them for floyd, harralson, and polk counties in georgia and cleburne and cherokee counties in alabama

Human Services
3
Kick Hunger Corporation

Feeding and providing shelter for the hungry

Housing & Shelter
4
Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
5
Caring for Others Inc

Caring for others, exist for the purpose of helping those without the basic necessities to live with dignity. we are a committed to giving a voice to the faces of poverty, by restoring hope and providing the tools and resources required to…

Human Services
6
Simple Needs Ga Inc

Simple Needs GAs mission is to meet the simple needs of children and people experiencing homelessness and others in need, while inspiring our community to do the same.

Human Services
7
House of Mercy Incorporated

To provide food, clothing, and shelter to homeless and abandoned individuals and families

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8
Community Share Ministry Co

Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
9
Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Inc

We connect neighbors with nourishing food. the food bank of northeast georgia serves people facing food insecurity across a 15-county service area.

Food & Nutrition
10
Run for the Fallen Inc

Benefit fallen soldiers

Human Services
11
Colquitt Food and Clothing Bank Inc

The purpose of this organization is to provide food to low income and needy families/individuals of Colquitt County, Georgia. Counseling in health and nutrition to these families/individual residents of Colquitt County is also provided.…

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12
Willing Helpers Medical Inc

To assist in providing medical care to the uninsured of newton- jasper and walton counties

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity - North Central Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sagerstrong Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%7%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%46%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr8%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%6%<5yr17%1%5–10yr20%47%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr9%19%35–55yr8%8%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
21%
2,591/12,604

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 51 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC — $62,900 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEOR…The Place of Forsyth County Inc — $50,500 · Human ServicesThe Place of Forsyth County IncMust Ministries Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries IncSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $33,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INCNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC — $25,008 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES I…Forsyth County Family Haven Inc — $20,500 · Human ServicesForsyth County Family Haven IncKARE FOR KIDS INC — $17,800 · Human ServicesKARE FOR KIDS INCBALD RIDGE LODGE INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesAboutFace - USA — $12,618 · Human Services+2 more — $17,440 · Human Services+2 moreWHITLOW ELEMENTARY — $27,085 · OtherWHITLOW ELEMENTARYTHE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF GEORGIA — $20,058 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF GEO…BLACKS MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $18,878 · OtherBLACKS MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL…OPERATION APPRECIATION INC — $17,500 · OtherOPERATION APPRECIATION INCLANIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 · OtherLANIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUN…CHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INC — $15,000 · OtherCHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INCCUMMING FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherCUMMING FIRST UNITED METHODIS…EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BAPTIST CONVENTION THE STATE OF GA — $15,000 · OtherEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BA…EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GA — $13,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA INC — $10,000 · OtherCITY ON A HILL CHURCH INC — $10,000 · OtherMOTHER'S CUPBOARD INC — $10,000 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE NORTH GEORGIA — $10,000 · OtherForsyth County Sheriffs Explorers Inc — $10,000 · OtherJohns Creek Veterans Association — $10,000 · Other+7 more — $43,266 · Other+7 moreTHE UNSEEN HAND MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionTHE UNSEEN HAND MINIS…THERE'S HOPE FOR THE HUNGRY INC — $32,500 · Food & NutritionTHERE'S HOPE FOR THE …MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA — $27,000 · Food & NutritionMINISTRIES OF GRACE I…THE MARCUS E AND SHARON GUNTER FOUNDATION — $26,000 · Food & NutritionTHE MARCUS E AND SHAR…GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD…DAWSON COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $22,000 · Food & NutritionDAWSON COMMUNITY FOOD…MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $15,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERI…SKYE PRECIOUS KIDS INC — $31,699 · HealthSKYE PRECIOUS…GLORY HOPE & LIFE INC — $27,160 · HealthGLORY HOPE & …GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON COUN — $22,100 · HealthGOOD SHEPHERD…ALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC — $18,000 · HealthALS UNITED OF…NO LONGER BOUND INC — $10,547 · HealthNO LONGER BOU…VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA — $6,500 · HealthVARIETY-THE C…GWINNETT TECH FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · PhilanthropySAGERSTRONG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · EducationCUMMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO — $14,584 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $19,140 · International
Human Services$305,766Other$262,287Food & Nutrition$187,500Health$116,006Philanthropy$57,500Education$52,084International$19,140

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC — $62,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Place of Forsyth County Inc — $50,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGWINNETT TECH FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNSEEN HAND MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $33,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHERE'S HOPE FOR THE HUNGRY INC — $32,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSKYE PRECIOUS KIDS INC — $31,699 over 2y, 32% of budgetGLORY HOPE & LIFE INC — $27,160 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA — $27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC — $25,008 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON COUN — $22,100 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetForsyth County Family Haven Inc — $20,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $19,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKARE FOR KIDS INC — $17,800 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLANIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBALD RIDGE LODGE INC — $15,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO — $14,584 over 2y, 15% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC — $10,547 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForsyth County Sheriffs Explorers Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAGERSTRONG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetACT TOGETHER MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBETHANY PLACE INC — $7,440 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetChampions Community Foundation Inc — $6,513 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA — $6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC — $5,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION INC — $5,292 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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.

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.

Atlanta Community Foo…Georgia Power Foundat…North Georgia Communi…Community Foundation …Tr Uw Charles I BrananBenjamin F Brady Char…The Community Foundat…The Scott Hudgens Fam…Synchrony FoundationAthens Area Community…Smurfit Westrock US F…The Fischer Family Fo…
Atlanta Community Food Bank IncGA31.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Benjamin F Brady Charitable Foundat · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008

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 Sawnee Electric Membership 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your 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
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sawnee Electric Membership 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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