Who are University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia College & State University ($3.0M), Georgia State University Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Fort Valley State University ($1.9M).

Which funders back the same organizations as University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation, Flint Energies Foundation Inc.

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates

Q: How much does University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates give?

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates reported 36 itemized grants totaling $4,996,522, out of $5,561,510 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Q: What does University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Human Services (2%).

Q: Does University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates based?

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates is based in GA.

The mission of the University System of Georgia Foundation, a cooperative organization of the Board of Regents, is to support and advance the work of the University System of Georgia consistent with the University System's Strategic Plan.

$5.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$23MHuman Services$499k

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 36 grants below total $4,996,522, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,561,510 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $564,988 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k15 grants · $419k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+6 grants · $3.4M

$51,879

Median grant

States reached

$527M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Georgia College & State University	$1,168,831
Georgia Southwestern State University	$663,085
Fostering Success Act Inc	$498,814
Middle Georgia State University	$417,384
Albany State University	$369,075
Fort Valley St University	$297,619
Georgia State University Foundation	$249,071
Georgia Southern University Foundation	$118,455
ABAC Foundation	$112,679
Gordon College	$98,310
Columbus State University Foundation	$89,760
University of North Georgia Foundation - Dahlonega Inc	$78,101
Augusta State University Foundation	$63,743
College of Coastal Georgia Foundation	$62,363
Fort Valley State University Foundation Inc	$61,963

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$21M · 34 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$21M

$762k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+148%

Still filing today

74%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GS
Georgia State University Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +42%
KS
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +104%
CS
Columbus State University Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +69%

Funded once

MG
MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $132k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA
one grant, 2024 · $94k
RF
REACH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $69k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundationinc

Assist and further research at georgia southern university

Science & Tech

Uga Real Estate Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates

Education

Augusta University Foundation Inc

To raise private support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and others to further the interests of augusta university. other purposes of the foundation are to establish and maintain endowments and provide the administration for…

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Athens State University Foundation

The Foundation promotes the University to the surrounding community, works to build a strong alumni group, and helps secure funding for scholarships.

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Georgia College & State University Alumni Association Inc

The association shall empower alumni to forge enduring connections with their alma mater, each other, and the wider community. the association shall enrich the lives of alumni through a spectrum of valuable services, including dynamic…

Education

The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc

The NSU Foundation was created exclusively to benefit Northeastern State University for charitable, benevolent, educational, scientific and literary purposes.

Education

The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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Georgia Piedmont Technical College Foundation Inc

The mission of the Georgia Piedmont Technical College Foundation is to (1) Promote the cause of postsecondary technical and adult education (2) to help support educational opportunities for the constituents of Georgia Piedmont Technical…

Education

Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc

To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.

Education

Tennessee State University Foundation

To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.

Education

Henderson State University Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse property and funds for the educational mission of henderson state university. the foundation provides hsu with resources not provided by…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Education Advancement Council (Geac). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

19/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,841,979Education$10,443,565Human Services$498,814Public Benefit$263,700Philanthropy$155,000Community Improvement$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Flint Energies Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Fuller E Callaway Professorial Chairs Tr · Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Emory University

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home