· Private foundation
Southern States Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE | $65,000 |
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $7,850 |
| KASUMISOU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S BOARD OF BETHESDA | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CANDLER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA INC | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ABILITIES UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $600 |
| CHATHAM SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR HOMELESS | $500 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE2× · 2022–2023 · $275k · revenue +11%
- TSTHE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $245k · revenue +3%
- SCSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC2× · 2021–2022 · $167k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SCSAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $77k
- GSGeorgia Southern University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +46%
- GHGeorgia Historical Societygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +94%
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians. We produce research and state budget analysis to show Georgia ways to provide equitable education,…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
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.…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Kasumisou Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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
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 UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Daufuskie Island Historical Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAWS4PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Kasumisou Foundation ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF BETHESDA INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 200 CLUB OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds Savannah Traffic Club ↗
- Who funds QUALITY GROWTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
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.
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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 States Educational 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.
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.