How much did THE HODGE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE HODGE FOUNDATION INC’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

2019

financialcoastal

2020

financial assitance

2021

financial

2022

financial assitance

2023

financial

2024

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2025

financial

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

03FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k6 grants · $137k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

HODGE MEMORIAL DAY CARE C$99,900
CHATHAM SAVANNAH AUTHORITY HOMELESS$40,000
EAST SAVANNAH UNITED$25,000
SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC$25,000
HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC$25,000
FRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$12,000
SAFE SHELTER$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTH GA$5,000
WILDERNESS SOUTHEAST$5,000
COASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$5,000

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 (FY19–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 19 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+37%

Still filing today

58%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

UM
UNION MISSION
2× · 2018–2021 · $245k · revenue +120%
SC
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
2× · 2018–2022 · $102k · revenue +47%
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ELEVATE SAVANNAH
2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +66%

Funded once

SC
SAVANNAH CLASSICLA ACADEMY
one grant, 2019 · $54k
WC
WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAVANNA
one grant, 2024 · $50k
SC
SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +201%

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.

Savannah Childrens Theatre Inc

The Savannah Children's Theatre mission is to inspire, educate and entertain children and families through the experience of live theatre, both on and off the stage.

Arts & Culture

Community Housing Services Agency Inc

To develop, implement and operate various affordable housing programs in chatham county, ga.

Housing & Shelter

Housing Savannah Inc

Grow community resources to preserve and create housing that is affordable for everyone.

Housing & Shelter

The Creative Coast Inc

To nurture the members of the savannah community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.

Community Improvement

Historic Savannah Foundation Inc

To save buildings, places and stories that define savannah's past, present and future.

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Savannah Classical Academy

The savannah classical academy foundation, a charitable, non-profit organization is dedicated to raising and stewarding funds to provide educational resources, improve the educational environment, and support the educational and…

Education

Savannah Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.

Public Safety & Disaster

Inner City Night Shelter Inc

A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, ga.

Housing & Shelter

The Savannah Benevolent Association

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Arts Southeast Inc

To make savannah a destination for art and culture in the southeast by supporting established and emerging artists, engaging a diverse community with creative programming, and developing awareness and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture

Economic Opportunity for Savannah-

To provide community-based services which empower citizens to attain economic independence and a higher quality of life.

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Voices of Savannah Tn

Family support service,Emergency assist

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heads-Up Guidance Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

23 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,315,643Housing & Shelter$244,620Human Services$155,000Education$117,000Arts & Culture$106,000Youth Development$94,500Health$22,500

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 Savannah Community FoundationGA46× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Empire · Colonial Foundation Inc · The Savannah Benevolent Association · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Jolly Foundation Inc · Savannah Jewish Council Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan

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 HODGE FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: ELEVATE SAVANNAH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

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

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +66% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832623406 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 ELEVATE SAVANNAH, 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.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
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 Hodge Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hodge Foundation Inc 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 HODGE FOUNDATION INC

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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hodge Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE HODGE FOUNDATION INC

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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hodge Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph