· Private foundation
Walton County Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GEORGIAS PIEDMONT | $77,039 |
| WALTON CO CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER | $65,000 |
| SOCIAL CIRCLE CITY SCHOOLS | $44,025 |
| SOCIAL CIRCLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $44,025 |
| MONROE MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| THE SHEPHERDS STAFF MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| SOCIAL CIRCLE THEATRE | $24,257 |
| WALTON COUNTY EXTENSION 4H | $15,000 |
| HARMONY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| OPERATION RALLY POINT | $15,000 |
| MASTERS TOUCH RECREATIONAL RIDING | $14,271 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NE GA COUNCIL | $14,150 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WALTON CO | $14,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES INC | $12,500 |
| ON STAGE INC | $10,850 |
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 (FY19–25, $858k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- SSShepherds Staff Ministries Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +445%
- FIFAITH IN SERVING HUMANITY7× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +84%
- ACA Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In4× · 2021–2024 · $127k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HHHOMETOWN HEROES OF WALTON COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $40k
- WCWALTON COUNTY CHRISTIAN LEARNING CEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +196%
- VBVICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH OF LOGANVILLE INCone grant, 2023 · $14k
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.
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center, Inc. will provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse, severely neglected children and children who have witnessed a violent crime. The Center will work every day to try and stop…
Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Woodland Academy operates a school with an average of 7-9 full time at risk students ages 11-18. Our objective is to provide an alternative educational setting to meet the social, emotional/behavioral, academic and life needs of our…
The Carroll County Child Advocacy Center exists to champion the needs of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties through prevention, intervention and collaboration.
Family support service,Emergency assist
To increase student achievement by building a culture of high expectations for all students.
School provides christian based learning enviroment for children with behavioral and family issues
Child Advocacy Services
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
For more than ten years we have served the local homeschooling community (with students from macon, trousdale, smith, wilson, and sumner counties) by offering academic and elective enrichment for grades k-12. uca students compete and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is George Walton Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Rally Point. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 80 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Georgia's Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Staff Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Student Success Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN SERVING HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds A Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Team Up Mentoring Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGANVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Monroe Cultural & Heritage Museum ↗
- Who funds The McDaniel Tichenor House Inc ↗
- Who funds Operation Rally Point ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Monroe-Walton Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Masters Touch Recreational Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds WALTON COUNTY CHRISTIAN LEARNING CE ↗
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: Walton Co Health Care Foundation In · Walton Electric Trust Inc · Charles M Walker Foundation Inc · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Walton County · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Snell Family Foundation Inc · Felker Family Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Athens Area Community 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 Walton County 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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