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The Forehand Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$604kReligion$136kHousing & Shelter$90kHuman Services$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCommunity Improvement$11kEducation$9kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$349k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$21,000
GEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC$2,500
CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY$1,500
PENIEL RECOVERY MINISTRIES INC$1,000
CRISP COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL$1,000
EL FARO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$900
CORDELE-CRISP COMMUNITY LEAGUE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HAND OF HOPE INC: $10k → 25%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 10 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$176k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+8%

Still filing today

40%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GW
    GEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • CC
    CRISP COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +200%
  • SP
    Sandy Paws Rescue Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • TF
    THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +96%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Safe Homes of Augusta Inc

To provide assistance from domestic violence.

Human Services
2
Galax Hope House Ministries Inc

The mission of the hope house is to provide a christ-based recovery program for the homeless and hurting that will help them to be healthy, happy, productive and self-sufficient.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mercer County Family Crisis Center

The organization is dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and building a community free of abuse. the mission of the organization is to support and respond to the needs of survivors of violence and/or abuse as well as their…

Human Services
4
7 Bridges to Recovery Corporat

To rescue our brothers and sisters off the streets

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5
Family Crisis Center Inc

Provide shelter and support for victims of domestice abuse

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6
Hope House of Cherokee County Inc

Provide temporary shelter and assistance

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7
Community Resource Center of Chattooga

To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.

Food & Nutrition
8
Never Alone Ministries Inc

Alabama based christian transformation home for women in crisis and their children. including rigorous individualized programs that strives to meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs. individualized issue-oriented classes are offered,…

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9
Community Resource Center of Newton County Inc

Our purpose is to provide Newton County's neediest residents with emergency aid through the combined resources of our community donors/volunteers and our local member churches. This aid in not only financial, but training and services that…

Philanthropy
10
House of Hope Christ Centered Recov

Help clients identify their core issues

Housing & Shelter
11
Critical Care for Animal Angels Inc

Critical care for animal angels is dedicated to rescuing primarily homeless, injured, or sick dogs from high-kill shelters in georgia and operates through a network of foster homes and a primary rescue location in the middle georgia area.

Animals
12
Habitat for Humanity of Cass County

The organization is a christian outreach program that provides decent and adequate housing, without prejudice, in partnership with qualifying families in need in cass county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hand of Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gateway Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND: $603,585 · PhilanthropyTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUNDAMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING: $75,000 · OtherAMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER …CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $53,700 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $47,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $19,000 · OtherST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA: $15,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEOR…+9 more: $34,500 · Other+9 moreTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalHAND OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementCRISP COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementSandy Paws Rescue Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsPENIEL RECOVERY MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$603,585Other$244,200Crime & Legal$25,000Human Services$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Community Improvement$10,500Animals$3,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUND: $603,585 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAND OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCRISP COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSandy Paws Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPENIEL RECOVERY MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISP AREA ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CRISP COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Sandy Paws Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds PENIEL RECOVERY MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Forehand Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forehand Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Forehand Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Forehand Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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