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The Savannah Community Foundation Inc
The savannah community foundation benefits donors, donees, and the community by providing a safe, simple, inexpensive, and tax efficient vehicle for philanthropic capital accumulation, investment and distribution to public charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $5,751,860 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,129,191 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $377,331 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE I | $534,363 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $500,000 |
| THARROS PLACE INC | $371,650 |
| SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $245,250 |
| PERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC | $244,100 |
| AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL | $203,519 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF | $201,750 |
| SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER | $201,629 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION | $167,350 |
| ROYCE LEARNING CENTER | $155,525 |
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATI | $151,463 |
| UNION MISSION INC | $142,189 |
| COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY | $125,750 |
| SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $101,000 |
| THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
156 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 20 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +10%
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +230%
- TPTHARROS PLACE4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +648% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- SLSPRINGFIELD LEGACY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $994k · revenue ×19
- GSGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Incone grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue +7%
- TOTHE ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue +127%
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.
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The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
To nurture the members of the savannah community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
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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 Gordonston Park Preserv Assoc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
190 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. 190 of the 262 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds PARKER'S COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THARROS PLACE ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT FOR THE NATIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Gordonston Park Preserv Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH JEWISH COUNCIL INC DBA SAVANNAH JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC ↗
- Who funds University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates ↗
- Who funds ROYCE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE OUTREACHINC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORMSLOE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRON- MENTAL HISTORYINCC/O CRAIG BARROW ↗
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: Colonial Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Empire · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · The Savannah Benevolent Association · International Paper Company Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · Jolly 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 Savannah Community 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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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