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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.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 109
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,450
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $534,363
- Organizations funded a year
- 85 to 105
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $104M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Savannah Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 99 | $5.7M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 101 | $5.2M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $6.5M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 105 | $5.7M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $4.0M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $3.2M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $2.5M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 86 | $2.8M | 51% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of the Coastal Empire | $3,361,860 | 9 | 10% |
| Parker's Community Fund Inc | $2,848,191 | 3 | 83% |
| America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc | $2,089,947 | 9 | 3% |
| Tharros Place | $1,466,600 | 4 | 50% |
| Savannah Country Day School Inc | $1,388,095 | 9 | 1% |
| Telfair Museum of Art Inc | $1,314,299 | 9 | 3% |
| Union Mission Inc | $1,204,091 | 9 | 8% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,148,713 | 7 | n/a |
| Light for the Nations Ministries Inc | $1,046,000 | 4 | 86% |
| Springfield Legacy Foundation Inc | $993,775 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 254 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Savannah Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 164 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Savannah Community Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Savannah Community Foundation Inc
- How much does The Savannah Community Foundation Inc give?
- The Savannah Community Foundation Inc reported 109 itemized grants totaling $5,751,860, out of $6,129,191 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 105 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Savannah Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Education (17%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Savannah Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of the Coastal Empire ($3.4M), Parker's Community Fund Inc ($2.8M), America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc ($2.1M).
- Does The Savannah Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Savannah Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colonial Foundation Inc, United Way of the Coastal Empire, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Savannah Community Foundation Inc based?
- The Savannah Community Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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