· Private foundation
Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THORNWELL | $10,000 |
| APPARO ACADEMY INC | $8,000 |
| RISE AUGUSTA | $8,000 |
| HERITAGE ACADEMY AUGUSTA | $7,500 |
| CHILD ENRICHMENT INC | $7,500 |
| TUTTLE-NEWTON HOME INC | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY AUGUSTA AREA | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA MINI THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 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
- TNTUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +152%
- AAAPPARO ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue ×111
- RARISE Augusta Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- WMWestabou Montessori Schoolone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -87%
- TTHORNWELLone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -9%
- SASALVATION ARMY OF AUGUSTAone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.
To provide a quality education for students from pre k thru the eighth grade primarily from low income families.
Soar academy was established in 2011 by founder kenisha skaggs with the goal of creating a non-traditional learning environment that caters to each students individual learning style. the academy provides personalized curricula designed to…
The augusta preparatory day school, inc. provides educational services to students in grades pre-k through 12.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.
Provide services to children in the foster system
The SouthEastern Young Artists brings artists and community together by putting on performances for the public. Additionally artists will go into local schools and education institutions to do workshops around music and social emotional…
Our mission is to provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. it is also to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards…
To serve children with disabilities and their typical peers through state-of-the art educational, therapeutic, nursing and family support services in an integrated environment.
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with augusta youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tuttle Newton Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 TUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RISE Augusta Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Augusta Mini Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds WALTON FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds FORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Westabou Montessori School ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts 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 · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jefferson Energy Cooperative Foundation Inc · Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc · University Health Services Inc · Augusta Exchange Club Charity Fund Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Paul S and Carolyn a Simon Foundation · Erramuzpe Foundation Inc · Patricia S McGee 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 Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn 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.