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The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc

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.

$969k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$505k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.3MEducation$920kInternational$350kEnvironment$261kAnimals$151kMembership Benefit$85kPhilanthropy$75kHealth$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $340k
  • $250k+1 grant · $505k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$505,000
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION$70,000
TELFAIR MUSEUMS$60,000
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS$60,000
DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$50,000
KENNESAW MUSEUM FOUNDATION$30,000
GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$10,000
ALLIANCE THEATRE$10,000
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $50k → 10%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $105k → 22%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $118k → 14%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%KENNESAW MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%WESLEYAN SCHOOL: $50k → 9%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $50k → 18%ARLINGTON HOUSE FOUNDATION: $34k → 12%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $70k → 22%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $55k → 14%COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $60k → 22%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $53k → 14%ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $215k → 13%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $60k → 22%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $50k → 14%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $35k → 22%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $172k → 16%GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $72k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $50k → 14%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $32k → 14%SKYLAND TRAILS: $40k → 14%GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $72k → 13%ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS: $60k → 13%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $60k → 13%ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS: $60k → 13%GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $40k → 13%HISTORIC OAKLAND FOUNDATION: $85k → 13%OAKLAND CEMETERY: $85k → 13%HISTORIC OAKLAND CEMETERY: $80k → 13%HISTORIC OAKLAND CEMETERY: $50k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $574k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $555k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $505k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $160k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $60k → 13%PACE ACADEMY: $53k → 13%ZOO ATLANTA: $60k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $51k → 13%ZOO ATLANTA: $50k → 13%CHASTAIN HORSE PARK: $50k → 13%ZOO ATLANTA: $40k → 13%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA: $50k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 34 repeat orgs$810k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
28

Total granted

$5.6M
$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +110%
  • OU
    OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +38%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HO
    Historic Oakland Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +7%
  • OC
    OAKLAND CEMETERY
    one grant, 2021 · $85k
  • TI
    TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +29%
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
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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2
Society of Architectural Historians

The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…

Arts & Culture
3
American Civil War Museum Collection

The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.

Arts & Culture
4
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
5
Uss Constitution Museum Inc

The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.

Arts & Culture
6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
The American Civil War Museum

The mission of the american civil war museum is to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the american civil war and its legacies from multiple perspectives: union and confederate, enslaved and free african americans, soldiers and…

Arts & Culture
8
American Antiquarian Society

Supports and maintains a research library of american history and culture. the american antiquarian society cultivates a deeper understanding of the american past, grounded in its ever-growing collection of printed and manuscript sources.…

Education
9
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
10
Fernbank Inc

Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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12
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 67 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,120,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $365,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONWITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureWITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCAmerican Battlefield Trust: $280,795 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust+15 more: $561,250 · Arts & Culture+15 moreGeorgia Historical Society: $340,001 · OtherGeorgia Historical SocietySouthern Center for International Studies Inc: $300,000 · OtherSouthern Center for Internation…ZOO ATLANTA: $150,000 · OtherZOO ATLANTAIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALLIANCE THEATRE: $125,000 · OtherALLIANCE THEATREHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $85,000 · OtherOAKLAND CEMETERY: $85,000 · OtherNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $81,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $70,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $64,000 · Other+25 more: $397,300 · Other+25 moreOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $500,000 · EducationOGLETHORPE …PACE ACADEMY INC: $77,500 · EducationPACE ACADEM…WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SC…DARROW SCHOOL: $24,000 · Education+4 more: $29,194 · EducationTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthJunior Achievement of Georgia: $50,000 · InternationalCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$3,677,045Other$1,828,201Education$680,694Environment$185,000Health$50,000International$50,000Recreation & Sports$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,120,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $365,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $340,001 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSouthern Center for International Studies Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 51% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $280,795 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $97,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $77,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $51,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDARROW SCHOOL: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $21,894 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCO OF MILITARY HISTORIANS: $6,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds Southern Center for International Studies Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
  • Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
  • Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
  • Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC ↗
  • Who funds KENNESAW MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds DARROW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗

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.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Savannah Communit…Mary Lane Morrison Fo…Colonial Foundation I…Community Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…The Adler Family Foun…Roy and Janet Dorsey …Georgia Humanities Co…J Bulow Campbell Foun…The Coca-Cola Foundat…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Adler Family Foundation Inc · Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation Inc · Georgia Humanities Council Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc

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 Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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