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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.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
181
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k68 grants · $302k
  • $10k–50k77 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$15,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$120M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$100,000
CONSTRUCTION READY$100,000
GOODR$100,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$100,000
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE U FOUNDATION$83,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM: $40k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 6%MONEY MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%TODAY'S HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA: $25k → 14%MORNINGSTAR MISSION: $5k → 7%THRIVE PENNINSULA: $55k → 17%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%SER FAMILIA: $45k → 8%BUFFALOW FAMILY AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY DAYS: $20k → 9%TODAY'S HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 16%YWCA GREATER ATLANTA: $5k → 15%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $10k → 7%URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $75k → 20%MUST MINISTRIES: $20k → 8%QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 8%MUST MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 8%QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS INC: $5k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $50k → 17%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE: $25k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1.0M → 14%ACROSS THE BRIDGE INC: $5k → 9%THRIVE PENINSULA: $35k → 17%SER FAMILIA: $10k → 8%THE GARDEN OF HOPE: $40k → 19%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $10k → 14%THE VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%PROVISO LEYDEN COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 14%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YMCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%CHRIS 180: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $20k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $135k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $25k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH & ADVOCACY CENTER: $50k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $100k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 112 repeat orgs$7.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
206

Total granted

$9.1M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
  • GJ
    GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +101%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHICAGO
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • GE
    GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • TF
    TCSG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
4
Spelman College

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.

Education
5
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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8
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
9
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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10
Lehigh University

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…

Education
11
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
12
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

272 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. 272 of the 417 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
264/272
Grantees still filing
160/272
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $590,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA: $415,000 · OtherGOODR: $300,000 · Other+128 more: $7,444,250 · Other+128 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,045,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…Operation Warm Inc: $255,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm In…WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE F…URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF H…THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $90,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $85,000 · Human Services+17 more: $602,500 · Human Services+17 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $304,100 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $200,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationNational Black College Alumni Hall of Fame: $100,000 · EducationCAREERSPRING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationINROADS INC: $60,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $58,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $57,500 · EducationFulton Leadership Academy: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $133,050 · EducationUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $550,000 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $175,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $160,000 · PhilanthropyAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $105,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $95,000 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $800,000 · Crime & LegalSafer Foundation: $150,000 · Crime & LegalPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank Inc: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCELEBRATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $58,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOUT OF HAND THEATER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentThe Elizabeth River Project: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $100,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentH2GP FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Environment
Other$8,749,250Human Services$2,462,500Education$1,247,650Philanthropy$1,235,000Crime & Legal$1,170,000Arts & Culture$615,500Environment$585,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,045,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $800,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $590,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $550,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $304,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $255,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $235,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOP BOX FOODS: $200,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $170,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $155,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafer Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCITYSWING FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $128,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $105,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA BUSINESS LEAGUE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUCM NETWORK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GA: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNational Black College Alumni Hall of Fame: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $90,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAREERSPRING FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFernbank Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

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 Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …Atl Fdn-W Peters MainUnited Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Tuw Thomas H PittsTruist Foundation IncTHDF II Inc DBA The H…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA89× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
73report 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
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 Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Southern Company Gas Charitable 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 417 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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