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The Kole Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Kole Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHealth$515kReligion$385kPhilanthropy$35kFood & Nutrition$22kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $100
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$468,092
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC$500,000
SAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART$468,092
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE$375,000
TEMPLE SINAI$100
02The need
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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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $21k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 16%HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $500k → 16%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 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
The Hibernian Society of Savannah Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
Savannah Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
4
The Savannah Benevolent Association
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5
Louise C Bowles for Union Society of Savannah
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6
Savannah State Univ Nat Alum Assoc
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7
Inner City Night Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
8
Housing Savannah Inc

To raise awareness and support the affordable and workforce housing initiatives in the greater savannah/chatham county area.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Steward Center for Palliative Care Inc

Caring for patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses.

Health
10
Healthy Savannah Inc

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.

Health
11
Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina

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…

Philanthropy
12
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART INC: $1,171,097 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART INCHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE SAVANNAH INCSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $21,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INC: $375,000 · ReligionJEWISH EDUCATIONAL AL…SAVANNAH JEWISH COUNCIL INC DBA SAVANNAH JEWISH FEDERATION: $25,000 · ReligionSAVANNAH JEWISH COUNC…ST JOSEPH'S CANDLER: $12,000 · OtherCONGREGATION MICKVE ISRAEL: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $1,100 · OtherUNION MISSION INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $2,500 · HealthAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,171,097Human Services$522,500Religion$400,000Other$33,100Housing & Shelter$11,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVANNAH MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART INC: $1,171,097 over 4y, 96% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAVANNAH JEWISH COUNCIL INC DBA SAVANNAH JEWISH FEDERATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Savannah Communit…Amg Charitable Gift F…Georgia Power Foundat…The Byck Foundation I…The Kole Family Found…Byck-Rothschild Found…Bradley Foundation IncThe Dunn FoundationCourtney Knight Gaine…Savannah Jewish Counc…John G Kennedy Founda…Colonial Foundation I…
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Kole Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Kole Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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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