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The Frances Pilling and John B Cross Jr Foundation at a glance

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The Frances Pilling and John B Cross Jr 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.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$524kHousing & Shelter$107kArts & Culture$89kFood & Nutrition$82kHuman Services$38kReligion$37kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$80,000
PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$16,000
GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK$8,500
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER$8,000
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$7,500
FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS$6,000
THE PLACE OF FORSYTH INC$5,500
GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON CO$5,500
SKYLAND TRAIL$3,000
CHRIST CHURCH FREDERICA$2,000
PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $19k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $6k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$872k · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$872k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionEducationOther
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

  • PS
    PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +173%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +27%
  • FG
    FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHELTERING ARMS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • SS
    SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +53%
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
Springwell Inc

Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…

Human Services
2
The Glynn Community Crisis Center Inc

Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.

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3
CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services
4
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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5
Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.

Human Services
6
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
7
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
8
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
9
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
10
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
11
Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc

Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.

—
12
Piedmont Mountainside Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House Inc; the most unlike its peers is George West Mental Health Foundation 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $480,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $79,000 · OtherPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $55,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC+6 more: $65,450 · Other+6 moreMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $57,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WH…FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $35,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING G…GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $22,750 · HealthGOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON COUN: $10,000 · HealthPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $7,000 · HealthTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $4,000 · HealthGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionThe Drake House Inc: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $9,750 · Housing & ShelterWellspring Living Inc: $12,500 · ReligionThe Westminster Schools Inc: $5,000 · Education
Other$679,950Human Services$92,000Health$43,750Food & Nutrition$28,000Housing & Shelter$25,750Religion$12,500Education$5,000

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 budgetPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $79,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $57,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $55,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $35,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $22,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $10,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON COUN: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $9,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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 Imlay Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…The Scott Hudgens Fam…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainCommunity Foundation …United Way of Greater…Atlanta Community Foo…Publix Super Markets …The Community Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Pilling and John B Cross Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances Pilling and John B Cross Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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 22 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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