· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc
To serve the needs of the northwest georgia region and to benefit and promote the well being of various communities served by the foundation.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 143 grants below total $5,574,175 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,014,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $440,725 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $308k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER DALTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $623,277 |
| CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL | $460,000 |
| CONASAUGA DRUG COURT | $407,128 |
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC | $180,790 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC | $165,176 |
| ROCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $150,000 |
| CHRISTCHURCH PRESBYTERIAN INC | $140,441 |
| THE RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $140,000 |
| FIRST FOUNDATION INC | $119,461 |
| WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $109,600 |
| CATOOSA COUNTY BOC | $103,959 |
| DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $103,179 |
| CALHOUN-GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC HARRIS ARTS CENTER | $85,625 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES - CALHOUN | $80,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $567k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689k 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
- GDGREATER DALTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +55% · 93% of their budget
- CHCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +74%
- DSDALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $579k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CHCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCone grant, 2023 · $500k
- CICURREY INGRAM ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +103%
- JWJOHN W LOOPER JR SPEECH AND HEARING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $298k · revenue 0% · 60% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Catoosa. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
206 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. 206 of the 373 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER DALTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC ↗
- Who funds DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Guild Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JOHN W LOOPER JR SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LAMB INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Dalton Organization of Churches United for People ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs Northwest Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds DEO CLINIC 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: North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc · White Family Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · United Way of Northwest Georgiainc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · Anverse Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 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 The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.