· Private foundation
Thigpen Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASHIERS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAFE HOMES INC | $5,000 |
| WESLEY WOODS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| CSRA ALLIANCE FOR FORT GORDON | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FOFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +63%
- SHSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC5× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +55%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC3× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +6%
- EHEVANS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 foundation supports the family y young men's christian association by assisting them in the promotion of their mission and services for the entire community, regardless of circumstances.
The augusta metro chamber of commerce's mission is to lead the business community by serving as its advocate, promoting the region, enhancing the business climate, and providing quality membership programs and services.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.
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Inspire, lead and implement a united vision that provides the best possible quality of life for the community of north augusta. for north augusta to become the "community of choice" to live, work and play within the river region.
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
To serve the needs of the northwest georgia region and to benefit and promote the well being of various communities served by the foundation.
As a community development financial institution ("cdfi"), and administrators of the savannah affordable housing fund ("sahf"), chsa provides financing and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. (continued at schedule…
To promote arts in the csra through community events, weekly radio show, and marketing campaign. coordinate diverse community events, manage art grants for the city of augusta. public art agency for the city of augusta, manages the public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Augusta Jewish Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds CSRA ALLIANCE FOR FORT GORDON INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-CAROLINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NC#93 ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS 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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thigpen 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.