Georgia · Private foundation
Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 88
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $98M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $21M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $27M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $3.2M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $29M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $16M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $9.8M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 84 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2017 | 84 | $7.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $53,247,194 | 8 | 6% |
| Propel Education | $17,500,000 | 2 | 59% |
| Inroads Inc | $7,000,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Emory University | $3,530,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Grove Park Foundation Inc | $2,250,000 | 3 | 69% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $1,413,430 | 7 | 0% |
| Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $1,000,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Park Pride Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 13% |
Show all 186 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $20,546,665 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 88 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Health (5%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($53M), Propel Education ($18M), Inroads Inc ($7.0M).
- Does Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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