How much did THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

dec dafjanuary dafaugusta employeeemployee givingoct dafjune dafcash deposit

2019

december dafjan dafoctober dafaugusta employeeemployee givingjune daffebruary daf

2020

tell augusta'saugusta's storycystic fibrosisfeedingjobaugusta animalbreathestrong promotes

2021

library'saiken libraryspringfieldsuccessteamawardhostedsla

2022

groupbathsignagevictimizedsuccessteamaspectselementary

2023

cooper ridgesciences augustalearnersfoster careskills trainingprogramminggirls ages

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 196 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $195k
$10k–50k115 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k34 grants · $3.8M
$250k+18 grants · $9.6M

$21,500

Median grant

States reached

$183M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA$1,434,819
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC$1,311,724
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA$797,500
HUB FOR COMMUNITY INNOVATION INC$761,043
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC$657,871
BLOCK BY BLOCK$487,016
EAB$458,539
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$412,800
THE CITY OF AUGUSTA$391,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - SOUTHERN TERRITORY$383,098
UNITED WAY OF THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA$371,178
NORTH AUGUSTA FORWARD$365,000
AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL$357,208
VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC$307,300
GEHL STUDIO INC$302,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$57M · 277 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

277 repeat relationships — 147 still active in FY2024, 130 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

277

244

Total granted

$57M

$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+31%

Still filing today

65%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GC
GEORGIA CANCER CENTER - AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +130%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CSRA
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +203%
PL
PACELINE LLC
3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +4%

Funded once

GU
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $950k
CC
CHOATE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
one grant, 2022 · $504k
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2017 · $502k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of

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Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of Augusta Health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health

Augustana University Association

A four-year liberal arts university affiliated with the evangelical lutheran church.

Education

Georgia Economic Development

The foundation functions as an advocate of economic development for the state of georgia.

Community Improvement

Augusta Humane Society Inc

Provide shelter, food & medical care for stray or abandoned animals.

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Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

Adventist Health System Georgia Inc

The provision of medical care to the community through the operation of two hospitals.

Health

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

Georgia Agape Inc

Georgia agape's mission is to provide professional social services as a compassionate christian outreach to children and families in order to enhance their propects for a better and brighter future.

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Augusta Christian Schools

To provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards spriritually, socially and…

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Georgia tech research corporation advances research and technological development at georgia tech as it continually seeks to advance society and the global competitiveness of georgia and the nation. gtrc supports and promotes research…

Health

Georgia State University Athletic

To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Claflin University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%15/458

the rest of the field

15%

4,406/28,933

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.

05the grantee network

330 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

108

Early backer (in before they grew)

310/330

Grantees still filing

230/330

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$40,455,513Education$6,800,854Human Services$5,917,166Arts & Culture$4,781,180Health$4,763,588Philanthropy$2,412,118Food & Nutrition$1,694,479

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.

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.

The Knox FoundationGA111.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Knox Foundation · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jefferson Energy Cooperative · Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau · Storey Foundation Inc · Richards Family Foundation · Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc · Widows Home

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 organisation THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ART AND CULTURE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800760009 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ART AND CULTURE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Community Foundation for the Central?

Find your warmest path to The Community Foundation for the Central through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

330 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation for the Central?

More from the funding graph

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

330 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation for the Central?

More from the funding graph