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Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 20
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$155k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$139k29%
FY202414$107k7%
FY202317$60k29%
FY202220$95k55%
FY20218$42k13%
FY202014$47k86%
FY20173$11kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$273kInternational$79kYouth Development$31kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$23kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Calvary Chapel North Coast$150,0005n/a
Eternity Changers$55,000221%
International Justice Mission$24,00060%
Young Life$23,00050%
Samaritan's Purse$20,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$15,50040%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$15,0006n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$14,00040%
Alpha USA$13,50050%
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc$13,50040%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Calvary Chapel North Coast$150,0005n/a
Eternity Changers$55,000221%
International Justice Mission$24,00060%
Young Life$23,00050%
Samaritan's Purse$20,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$15,50040%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$15,0006n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$14,00040%
Alpha USA$13,50050%
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc$13,50040%
Christian Camps & Conference Inc$10,00020%
Ossining Food Pantry$7,00060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$6,00020%
Alpha Project for the Homeless$5,00010%
Restore NYC Inc$5,00010%
Transformed for Life Uganda$4,00011%
Promises2kids Foundation$4,00010%
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank$3,72310%
Arrabon Inc$3,00010%
Feeding San Diego$2,00010%
Informed Consent Action Network$2,00010%
Children's Health Defense$2,00010%
Feeding America$1,00010%
Food Rescue US Inc$1,00010%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEternity Changers: $55,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha USA: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Rescue Mission Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Camps & Conference Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOssining Food Pantry: $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Project for the Homeless: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRestore NYC Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransformed for Life Uganda: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $3,723 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArrabon Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding San Diego: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInformed Consent Action Network: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Defense: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Rescue US Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie

How much does Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie give?
Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie reported 18 grants totaling $139,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (54%), International (16%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Calvary Chapel North Coast ($150k), Eternity Changers ($55k), International Justice Mission ($24k).
Does Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie based?
Thomas W Changaris Foundation Co Georgia Higbie is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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