· Private foundation
The Kole Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $100
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC | $500,000 |
| SAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART | $468,092 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE | $375,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $523k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, georgia.
To raise awareness and support the affordable and workforce housing initiatives in the greater savannah/chatham county area.
Caring for patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses.
Healthy savannah is dedicated to making savannah a healthier place to live. our aim is to increase opportunities for citizens to engage in physical activity and consume a nutritious, balanced diet.
The mission of the jewish endowment foundation of south carolina is to educate, strengthen and support the sc jewish community by uniting people, and investing resources; and to lead and facilitate a culture of philanthropy and shared…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Savannah Museum of African Art Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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
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 SAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH JEWISH COUNCIL INC DBA SAVANNAH JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA 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 Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Byck Foundation Inc · The Kole Family Foundation Inc · Byck-Rothschild Foundation Inc · Bradley Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation 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 Kole 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.
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.
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