· Private foundation
The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL | $2,000,000 |
| PEACOCK LEGACY FOUNDATION FUND | $2,000,000 |
| DALTON STATE COLLEGE | $1,500,000 |
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN OF DALTON | $150,000 |
| THE BRIGHT SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $101,700 |
| FLOORING CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| BAYLOR SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $81,350 |
| CREATIVE ARTS GUILD | $60,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| DION FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DALTON | $50,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 18 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
- HHHAMILTON HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC3× · 2018–2023 · $4.9M · revenue +18%
- BJBobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +3%
- COCITY OF REFUGE2× · 2018–2022 · $105k · revenue +303%
Funded once
- CPCHRISTCHURCH PRESBYTERIANone grant, 2024 · $3.8M
- CHCHRISTIAN HERITAGE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1.1M
- DSDARLINGTON SCHOOL ENDOWMENTone grant, 2024 · $500k
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.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
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.…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.
Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…
Operation of charter school and related support services.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
To develop and administer a comprehensive primary health care system for the citizens of Forsyth County, Gwinnett County, Bartow County, Dawson County, and Cherokee County, Georgia, their surrounding communities and their citizens,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity of Gordon County 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 76 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 HAMILTON HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds DALTON DANCE COMPANY THE DALTON ARTS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GORDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Guild Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Dion Foundation for Children with Rare Diseases Inc ↗
- Who funds Artistic Civic Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST GA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · White Family Foundation Inc · Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation
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 The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation 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.
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