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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.

$94k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
73%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 23
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$43k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 73% of the organizations Southern States Educational Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$94k73%
FY202223$646k96%
FY20218$211kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$534kPhilanthropy$285kArts & Culture$54kReligion$21kHousing & Shelter$16kAnimals$15kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southern States Educational Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of the Coastal Empire: $275,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Savannah Classical Academy Inc: $245,300 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSavannah Country Day School Inc: $166,668 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTelfair Museum of Art Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDaufuskie Island Historical Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThe 200 Club of the Coastal Empire Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Fruit Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForkids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaws4people Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKasumisou Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budget100 Black Men of Savannah Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe Women's Board of Bethesda Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGeorgia Conservancy Inc: $2,555 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuality Growth Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilities Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBurn Foundation of America Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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.

The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Parker's Community Fund Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · Bradley Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation

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.

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About Southern States Educational Foundation Inc

How much does Southern States Educational Foundation Inc give?
Southern States Educational Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $94,450 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Southern States Educational Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (56%), Philanthropy (30%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Southern States Educational Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: United Way of the Coastal Empire ($275k), The Savannah Classical Academy Inc ($245k), Savannah Country Day School Inc ($167k).
Does Southern States Educational Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Southern States Educational Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Southern States Educational Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Savannah Community Foundation Inc, Colonial Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Southern States Educational Foundation Inc based?
Southern States Educational Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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