· Private foundation
Southern Company Gas Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $302k
- $10k–50k77 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,000,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| TOP BOX FOODS | $200,000 |
| GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT | $200,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $152,500 |
| CITYSWING FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ATLANTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC | $135,000 |
| CONSTRUCTION READY | $100,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA | $100,000 |
| GOODR | $100,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE U FOUNDATION | $83,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
- GJGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +101%
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHICAGOone grant, 2023 · $250k
- TFTCSG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k
- GEGOODWILL EXCEL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Caddie School for Soldiers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
272 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. 272 of the 417 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds TOP BOX FOODS ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GA ↗
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 · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Truist Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
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 Southern Company Gas Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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