· Private foundation
The Shoff Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC | $29,000 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION INC | $18,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH INC | $15,000 |
| GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $14,000 |
| WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ALANO BEACH CLUB INC | $9,000 |
| A1 GWINNETT VOLLEYBALL CLUB | $8,000 |
| HISPANIC ALLIANCE GA | $5,000 |
| WILTON AMBULANCE CORPS | $5,000 |
| DELIVERING HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAITH METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| HOSEA FEEDS THE HUNGRY & HOMELESS INC | $3,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- PAPrince Avenue Christian School Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +86%
- GWGEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%
- TUTHE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $146k · revenue +51% · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $20k
- BYBE YOUR OWN HERO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CONNECTICUTone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Halcyon lifts up innovators and creators who seek to make the world a better place, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to bring their ideas to life.
To protect lives and restore livelihoods of people affected by conflict: 1) to protect lives from the explosive threats and hazards resulting from conflict, 2) to reduce human suffering from armed violence and 3) to build resilient and…
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Positive Impact International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 74 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 Prince Avenue Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds P4 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC ALLIANCE GA ↗
- Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Shoff 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association 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.