· Private foundation
The Savannah Benevolent Association
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION MISSION | $27,259 |
| SAFE SHELTER | $22,700 |
| MATTHEW REARDON CENTER | $14,485 |
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $38k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- UMUNION MISSION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +120%
- ESELEVATE SAVANNAH3× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +71%
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC2× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- TPTHARROS PLACEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
- YOYMCA OF COASTAL GAone grant, 2019 · $25k
- WCWHITEFIELD CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
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.
To collaborate with savannahs faith-based community to provide healthy meals, emergency services and other assistance to the homeless and near-homeless in the savannah/chatham county area.
As a community development financial institution ("cdfi"), and administrators of the savannah affordable housing fund ("sahf"), chsa provides financing and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. (continued at schedule…
The organization feeds, shelters and teaches life development skills to the homeless people of the central savannah river area.
Protection and advocacy for people with developmental disabilities using the citizen advocacy model- matching local citizens as advocates in one- to-one voluntary advocacy relationships.
The organization provides prevocational and rehabilitation services that are designed to maximize the ability of blind and visually impaired individuals to live independently.
The organization's mission is to provide long-term care at a reasonble price to the elderly in southeast georgia, specifically the residents of chatham county, georgia.
The paul anderson youth home (payh) is a residential home providing christian rehabilitation for young men ages 16-20 seeking an alternative to incarceration.
Fair housing education and enforcement
Group home providing long term and emergency care to youth in the care of the south carolina department of social services serving youth ages 13-20.
The company is a professional organization for post-licensing education and support of realtors in savannah, georgia and the surrounding areas - dedicated to advocacy, service, and professional excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Old Savannah City Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Matthew Reardon Center for Autism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE OUTREACHINC ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THARROS PLACE ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds REED HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds ROYCE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OLD SAVANNAH CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRAGILE KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYABILITY 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 · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Empire · International Paper Company Foundation · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation 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 organization The Savannah Benevolent Association 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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