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The Vaughan Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUMC | $65,000 |
| MUST MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| MARIETTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| COBB LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MOUNTAIN TOP BOY'S HOME | $15,000 |
| CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME | $15,000 |
| MARIETTA EDUCATIONAL GARDEN CENTER | $15,000 |
| LIVE SAFE RESOURCES | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC | $12,000 |
| MARIETTA KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| MARIETTA HISTORY CENTER | $8,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC | $6,500 |
| COBB COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| COBB COUNTY SAFETY VILLAGE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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; $4k 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
- MMMust Ministries Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +46%
- MCMARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +71%
- MSMarietta Schools Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $124k · revenue +245%
Funded once
- PSPARK STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MGMARIETTA GARDEN CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NHNEW HOPE SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $8k
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 mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
To support the cobb county chamber of commerce, inc. in accomplishing community development in the cobb county, georgia area.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Macon resources, inc. (mri) provides comprehensive habilitative and rehabilitative training programs and support services to individuals (and the family of individuals) who have a developmental disability, mental illness, or other…
To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.
To enhance the economic development of cobb county and the metro atlanta region, specifically focusing on the interests and plans of cobb county, its cities, and educational institutions as well as targeted economic development and job…
All program services are for preschool and elementary school education for children ages 15 months to 12 years old with a goal of becoming a recognized authority and practitioner in achieving superlative outcomes based on the Montessori…
Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…
Special Needs Cobb, Inc. is committed to promoting opportunities for all people with developmental disabilities to live full, productive, self-determined lives of the highest quality by fostering local communities which embrace all people.
Provide the highest quality of educational & therapeutical programming available to children with/without disabilities by nurturing & chall- enging each student on his/her own level of development & curriculum.
To promote employment and education opportunities that strengthen the workforce and economic development in our community.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cobb Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 10 Women of Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA EDUCATIONAL GARDEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COBB LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC ↗
- Who funds LiveSafe Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARIETTA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds 10 WOMEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NOBIS WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGIA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Cobb Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Steve Virginia Tumlin Foundatio · Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Lucia and Mark Wilton Charitable Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Vaughan Foundation 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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