· Private foundation
Steve Virginia Tumlin Foundatio
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIETTA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHU | $6,440 |
| MUST MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $4,250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM ART | $3,000 |
| STRAND THEATRE | $3,000 |
| Reinhardt University | $1,800 |
| Childrens Healthcare | $1,220 |
| Mighty Millie Foundation | $1,000 |
| COBB MARIETTA YOUTH MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CHEROKEE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $750 |
| Marietta Kiwanis Foundation-Star St | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MHS-Marietta Racquet Club | $500 |
| MARIETTA EXTRA INNINGS CLUB | $450 |
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 (FY18–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +62% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- MMMust Ministries Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +139%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +72%
- MPMARIETTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- MFMarietta First United Methodist Chone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- LRLiveSafe Resources Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +112%
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.
The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
To support the cobb county chamber of commerce, inc. in accomplishing community development in the cobb county, georgia area.
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…
The mission of the madison-morgan cultural center is to enhance education and enjoyment of the arts and humanities by offering high quality permanent exhibits, temporary exhibitions, and performances while preserving our historic buildings.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
To promote employment and education opportunities that strengthen the workforce and economic development in our community.
Supporting and promoting educational achievement and excellence among the students, faculty, staff and administration of the Marietta City Schools.
Our mission is to connect the philanthropic goals of donors with the needs of macon county, and through leadership and community engagement, identify and address those needs.
None
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
To enhance the economic development of cobb county and the metro atlanta region, specifically focusing on the interests and plans of cobb county, its cities, and educational institutions as well as targeted economic development and job…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cobb Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Empowerment Through Learning Leading and Serving Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 95 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 Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LiveSafe Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA EDUCATIONAL GARDEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cobb Community Foundation Inc · The Vaughan Foundation · Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Marietta Daily Journal Community Foundation · Lucia and Mark Wilton Charitable Foundation Inc · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Steve Virginia Tumlin Foundatio 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.