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The Savannah Benevolent Association

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Youth Development$143kHuman Services$126kHousing & Shelter$102kHealth$82kFood & Nutrition$71kEducation$40kReligion$28kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION MISSION$27,259
SAFE SHELTER$22,700
MATTHEW REARDON CENTER$14,485
SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY$11,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIOR CITIZENS: $10k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS: $6k → 16%HOSPICE SAVANNAH: $7k → 16%CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE: $15k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$409k · 13 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$409k
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
0%

Still filing today

85%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UM
    UNION MISSION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +120%
  • ES
    ELEVATE SAVANNAH
    3× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +71%
  • AS
    AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +230%

Funded once

  • TP
    THARROS PLACE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • YO
    YMCA OF COASTAL GA
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • WC
    WHITEFIELD CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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

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
Inner City Night Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
2
Housing Savannah Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
3
United Ministries of Savannah Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Housing Services Agency Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
The Garden City Rescue Mission and Life Development Center Inc

The organization feeds, shelters and teaches life development skills to the homeless people of the central savannah river area.

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6
Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy

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.

Civil Rights
7
Savannah Association for the Blind

The organization provides prevocational and rehabilitation services that are designed to maximize the ability of blind and visually impaired individuals to live independently.

Health
8
Riverview Health & Rehabilitation Center Inc

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.

Health
9
Paul Anderson Youth Home Inc

The paul anderson youth home (payh) is a residential home providing christian rehabilitation for young men ages 16-20 seeking an alternative to incarceration.

Human Services
10
Savannah-Chatham County Fair Hsg Council Inc

Fair housing education and enforcement

Housing & Shelter
11
Cherokee Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Savannah Real Estate Board Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Old Savannah City Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARK PLACE OUTREACHINC: $33,863 · OtherPARK PLACE OUTREACHINCYMCA OF COASTAL GA: $25,000 · OtherYMCA OF COASTAL GAWHITEFIELD CENTER: $20,000 · OtherWHITEFIELD CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $14,859 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBETHESDAY ACADEMY: $13,000 · OtherBETHESDAY ACADEMYROYCE LEARNING CENTER: $13,000 · OtherROYCE LEARNING CENTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL D…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYAMBUCS: $7,500 · OtherFRAGILE KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $9,654 · Other+3 moreELEVATE SAVANNAH: $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE SAVANNAHURBAN HOPE INC: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN HOPE INCFRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $17,954 · Youth DevelopmentFRANK CALLEN BOYS &…SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $33,700 · Human ServicesSAFE SHELTER CENTE…THARROS PLACE: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHARROS PLACESENIOR CITIZENS INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS IN…CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHATHAM-SAVANNAH A…HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE SAVANNAH I…+1 more: $1,285 · Human ServicesUNION MISSION INC: $77,259 · Housing & ShelterUNION MISSION …AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICA'S …THE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $43,316 · EducationTHE MATTHE…THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $11,000 · EducationTHE SAVANN…Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc: $17,245 · ReligionTHE OLD SAVANNAH CITY MISSION INC: $10,575 · ReligionREED HOUSE INC: $15,000 · HealthSAVANNAH VOLUNTEER DENTAL CLINIC INC: $7,500 · Health
Other$164,376Youth Development$102,954Human Services$97,485Housing & Shelter$77,259Food & Nutrition$55,000Education$54,316Religion$27,820Health$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNION MISSION INC: $77,259 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetELEVATE SAVANNAH: $62,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $43,316 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPARK PLACE OUTREACHINC: $33,863 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $33,700 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHARROS PLACE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetURBAN HOPE INC: $23,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetFRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $17,954 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChatham Transitional Ministries Inc: $17,245 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROYCE LEARNING CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OLD SAVANNAH CITY MISSION INC: $10,575 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRAGILE KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPLOYABILITY INC: $1,285 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…The Hodge Foundation …Colonial Foundation I…Georgia Power Foundat…Courtney Knight Gaine…United Way of the Coa…International Paper C…Savannah Jewish Counc…The Blackbaud Giving …The Brenneman Family …John G Kennedy Founda…Tr Uw Charles I Branan
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Savannah Benevolent Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Savannah Benevolent Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Savannah Benevolent Association?

    Find your warmest path to The Savannah Benevolent Association 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 30 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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