· Private foundation
The Turner Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Georgia Foundati | $100,000 |
| Freedom from Bondage Inc | $60,000 |
| Eagle Ranch Inc | $60,000 |
| Camp Kudzu Inc | $50,000 |
| Project Safe Inc | $40,000 |
| YWCO | $40,000 |
| The Cancer Foundation of Northeast | $40,000 |
| Athens Area Humane Soceity | $37,500 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Athens | $35,000 |
| YMCA | $34,000 |
| Young Designers Sewing Program | $32,000 |
| Children First | $30,000 |
| Boys Girls Clubs of Athens | $30,000 |
| Mercy Health Center | $30,000 |
| Boy Scouts of Northeast Georgi | $28,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FFFREEDOM FROM BONDAGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $622k · revenue +64%
EAGLE RANCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +37%- ESExtra Special People Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +666%
Funded once
- CFCancer Foundation of Northeast Georone grant, 2018 · $20k
- FOFRIENDS OF OCONEE HILL CEMETERY INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -43%
- PHPALM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTERS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -39%
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 West Georgia Prevention & Advocacy Resource Center strives to end sexual violence in our community through prevention and awareness. We provide direct service to survivors of sexual assault, their families and their friends. We are…
The anchorage is an in-patient rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug abuse treatment for over 150 individuals. the anchorgae provides counseling services, meals, and room and board for individuals in the program. the anchorage…
To lead, support, and coordinate citizens and professionals in an effort to provide a central location using a multidisciplinary team approach to coordinate the evaluation, intervention, prosecution and treatment for children (and their…
Educational and work activities for the mentally challenged citizens of colquitt and worth counties of georgia.
To provide victim forensic medical examinations, evidence collection, forensic interviews, advocacy, court testimony and education related to sexual assault of children and adults in Athens-Clarke and surrounding counties in Georgia.
Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…
Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.
Provide a rehabilitation center for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction
The purpose and object of this organization shall be to provide temporary refuge or shelter, counseling and referral services as appropriate to assist victims of domestic or family violence.
Our mission is to help women find freedom, healing and wholeness through an intimate relationship with jesus christ, allowing god to order what has been disordered.
Recovery support meetings & pro-social activities to people in recovery & their families in forsyth county. also provides residential substance abuse treatment.
To provide collaborative plans of recovery and residential care to community members battling substance addiction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prevent Child Abuse Athens and the most unlike its peers is The Nuci Phillips Memorial Foundation 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP KUDZU INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE ATHENS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG DESIGNERS SEWING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Acceptance Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS-OCONEE CASA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OCONEE HILL CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PALM HOUSE RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Richard C Wilson Recovery Residence Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC ↗
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: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Walton Electric Trust Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · Glickman Family Foundation · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · The Harris Foundation
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 Turner Family 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.
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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