· Private foundation
The Knox Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $986k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $800,000 |
| AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC | $600,000 |
| FREDERICA ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| TURN BACK THE BLOCK | $220,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $212,000 |
| SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER | $135,000 |
| GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK | $135,000 |
| SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AUGUSTA | $100,000 |
| HALE FOUNDATION | $92,500 |
| CHILD ENRICHMENT INC | $75,500 |
| SAFE HOMES | $75,000 |
| RISE AUGUSTA | $70,000 |
| FAMILY Y OF GREATER AUGUSTA | $67,500 |
| HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC | $65,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $615k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
144 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- SHSACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +24% · 43% of their budget
- CECHILD ENRICHMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +187%
- APAUGUSTA PLAYERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $905k · revenue +242% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- GHGA HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION GA CAone grant, 2017 · $333k
- CMCOMMUNITY MINISTRY OF N AUGUSTAone grant, 2019 · $100k
- TRTHE RECING CREWone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -59%
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.
Our mission is to provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. it is also to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards…
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
The mission of the University System of Georgia Foundation, a cooperative organization of the Board of Regents, is to support and advance the work of the University System of Georgia consistent with the University System's Strategic Plan.
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.
The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians. We produce research and state budget analysis to show Georgia ways to provide equitable education,…
The augusta metro chamber of commerce's mission is to lead the business community by serving as its advocate, promoting the region, enhancing the business climate, and providing quality membership programs and services.
Georgia humanities connects people and communities to encourage understanding and inspire hope.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.
The association shall empower alumni to forge enduring connections with their alma mater, each other, and the wider community. the association shall enrich the lives of alumni through a spectrum of valuable services, including dynamic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Players Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 210 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 AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds TURN BACK THE BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds University Health Care Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FREDERICA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY 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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · University Health Services Inc · Storey Foundation Inc · George a Sancken Jr Foundation · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Rhodes Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Rehabilitation Institute 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 Knox Foundation 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.
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.