· Private foundation
The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,600 |
| FOOD BANK OF NE GEORGIA | $40,000 |
| EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,600 |
| UGA FOUNDATION - GMOA | $10,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF JOURNAL | $5,000 |
| MONTICELL FIRST UNITED METHODIST CH | $5,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION-BOTANICAL GARDEN | $3,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION | $2,200 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| OCONEE RIVER LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL ASSOC | $1,000 |
| ATHENS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| AIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| PIEMONT ATHENS REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 25 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +82%
- MHMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $26k · revenue +9%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +455%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $18k
- CCColby College Museum of Artone grant, 2018 · $11k
- UCUGA - COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of alachua conservation trust (act) is to protect the natural, historic, scenic and recreational resources in and around alachua county, florida. act protects land through purchase, donation, and conservation easements.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
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…
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Somerset Club Charitable Trust. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 130 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 Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OCONEE RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ATHENS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG DESIGNERS SEWING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Lonnie L Michael Foundation · Glickman Family Foundation · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Alice and Noah N Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc · The Turner Family Foundation Inc · Terrell Family Foundation · Walton Electric 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 Winthrop Foundation of Athens G 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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