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The Sledge 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY OPEN LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM HALL SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PORTER GAUD SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| EAST OF THE COOPER YOUNG LIFE | $1,500 |
| STRATFORD HALL | $1,200 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BEYOND DEMENTIA COALITION | $1,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your 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 +66% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RSRoper St Francis Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +176%
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +804%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +17%
Funded once
Merrie-Woode Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +156%- SCSOUTH CAROLINA BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To return the iconic american chestnut to its native range.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Supports and maintains a research library of american history and culture. the american antiquarian society cultivates a deeper understanding of the american past, grounded in its ever-growing collection of printed and manuscript sources.…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Lab rescue 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 75 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 CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Colleton County Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Lab rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND DEMENTIA COALITION LLC ↗
- Who funds Forest Landowner Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Nature Conservancy · The Bell Family Foundation · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Foundation for the Carolinas · Donors Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Sledge 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.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% 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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