Georgia · Private foundation
The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation
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.
- $274k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $492k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $274k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $157k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $147k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $192k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $200k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Simons Land Trust Inc | $162,283 | 5 | 3% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $129,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $106,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc | $102,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Inc | $64,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wesleyan College | $53,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Skagit County Historical Society | $41,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Raiz Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Endowment of the US Institute of Peace | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Teen Challenge Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($273k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Shearon and Taylor Glover Foundation Inc · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Turner Foundation Inc · Emory University · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Goddard Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation
- How much does The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation give?
- The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $273,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Environment (25%), Education (25%).
- Who are The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Simons Land Trust Inc ($162k), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($129k), Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($106k).
- Does The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation 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 The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation based?
- The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation is based in GA.
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