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The Peggy and James Woodruff Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$344kYouth Development$60kEnvironment$10kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$942k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL$25,000
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAMASSEE DAR SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $10k → 14%THE LITERACY COUNCIL: $10k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU: $20k → 18%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION - JAMES WALDO WOODRUFF JR SCHOLARSHIP: $25k → 27%TAMASSEE DAR SCHOOL: $15k → 17%THE HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST: $10k → 12%SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%RABU GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $25k → 13%TAMASSEE DAR SCHOOL: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU: $15k → 18%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $25k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU: $15k → 18%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $20k → 13%RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $20k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU: $10k → 18%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $20k → 13%RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $15k → 13%SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 5 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$369k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+97%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • AS
    Atlanta Speech School Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +14%
  • RG
    Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
    5× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +29%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +547%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION - JAMES WALDO WOODRUFF JR SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TH
    THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HL
    Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +97%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Atlanta Speech School Inc: $115,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech School IncRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $110,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee SchoolBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $60,000 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau IncSummit Charter School Foundation: $34,000 · EducationSummit Charter School FoundationTamassee DAR School Inc: $50,000 · OtherTamassee DAR School IncUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION - JAMES WALDO WOODRUFF JR SCHOLARSHIP: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOU…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION I…THE LITERACY COUNCIL: $10,000 · OtherTHE LITERACY COUNCILHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · Environment
Education$319,000Other$95,000Environment$10,000

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 budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSummit Charter School Foundation: $34,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
  • Who funds Tamassee DAR School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗

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.

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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 Peggy and James Woodruff Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peggy and James Woodruff Jr Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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