· Private foundation
Thomas T and Bernice F Irvin 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THOMAS T AND BERNICE F IRVIN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $52,000 |
| MT AIRY MASONIC LODGE #141 FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| NATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
| LORD'S HELP | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAKE LURE FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| GERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| BAT CAVE FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| EDNEYVILLE FIRE AND RESCUE | $5,000 |
| CHIMNEY ROCK FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| STEPHENS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FFA | $4,500 |
| RABUN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FFA | $4,000 |
| COOL SPRINGS CHURCH | $2,800 |
| STEPHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
91 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 18 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- PUPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $247k · revenue +24%
- OAOPEN ARMS CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +262%
- TMTRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MHMasonic Home of Georgiagraduatedone grant, 2018 · $106k · revenue +110%
- SRSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF GAINCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +200%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +213%
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.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.
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…
The corporation makes distributions to or for christian churches, ministries, and other charities
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.
The organization's mission is to improve access to comprehensive primary healthcare services for all
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Navicent health's mission is to elevate health and well-being through compassionate care for all. our values are integrity, respect, ownership, and caring. navicent health, inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to serve…
Presbyterian homes of georgia is a christian ministry providing exceptional services to enhance the quality of life for senior adults.
The georgia veterinary medical association is committed to advancing the veterinary medical profession and supporting the veterinarian's role in improving animal and public health.
The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Knox Whiten Foundation. 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 35 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 164 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 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF GAINC ↗
- Who funds HABERSHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARL SANDBURG AT CONNEMARA INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOCCOA STEPHENS COUNTY HUMANE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE HABERSHAM 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Fieldale Farms Foundation · Habersham County United Way Inc · Telford Family Foundation Inc Mary T Piggott · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Heaton McBrayer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · McNeely Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · The Richard C Munroe Foundation 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 Thomas T and Bernice F Irvin 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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