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Warren P and Ava F Sewell Foundation Inc

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.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION$52,190
SEWELL MILL$26,467
KIDSPEACE$17,000
Individual grant recipient$10,935
THE REAL THEATRE$10,000
UWG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$10,000
OAK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY$10,000
BREMEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$9,000
SOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
RESPITE CARE ATLANTA$6,000
KANSAS BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BREMEN JUNIOR WOMENS CLUB$4,500
WARREN P SEWELL LIBRARY$4,500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESPITE CARE ATLANTA: $6k → 13%SEWELL MILL: $26k → 15%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Kennesaw Mountain High School Drama

Our organization Kennesaw Mountain High School Drama tries to teach students the ins and outs of theater, creating a forever love of the arts. All income we receive goes back into the program to enhance and improve what we are doing while…

Arts & Culture
2
Historic Cobbham Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Hindu Center of Atlanta Inc

To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture

Religion
4
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
5
Georgia Shakespeare Festival Inc

After a 29-year run as one of Atlantas most respected theater troupes, Georgia Shakespeare closed its doors in October 2014 due to overwhelming debt.

6
Spruce Pine Historical Society

Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.

Arts & Culture
7
Culture Shift Inc

Culture Shift, Inc focuses on providing tutoring, mentoring, and training to GA students and familes

Education
8
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
9
Good People Theater Company Inc

Live theatre production of previously produced literary classics

Arts & Culture
10
Rome Little Theatre Inc

Live performing arts for the residents and students of northwest georgia.

Arts & Culture
11
Colonial Theater Inc

To restore and operate the historic augusta colonial theater for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of the community. the colonial theater will be a far-reaching, viable, restored historic theater in the downtown of our…

Arts & Culture
12
Heritage Community Theatre

Mission Statement on Schedule O

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oak Mountain Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Real Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KIDSPEACE — $17,000 · OtherKIDSPEACEIndividual grant recipient — $10,935 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUWG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $10,000 · OtherUWG SCHOOL OF THE ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKANSAS BAPTIST CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherKANSAS BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBREMEN JUNIOR WOMENS CLUB — $4,500 · OtherBREMEN JUNIOR WOMENS CLUBWARREN P SEWELL LIBRARY — $4,500 · OtherWARREN P SEWELL LIBRARYHOUSE OF CHERITH WEST — $4,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN QUILT AND TEXTILE — $3,535 · Other+6 more — $6,700 · Other+6 moreGOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC — $52,190 · AnimalsGOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION I…SEWELL MILL INC — $26,467 · Human ServicesSEWELL MILL INCRESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE ATLANT…CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesOak Mountain Academy Inc — $10,000 · EducationOak Mounta…Bremen Educational Foundation Inc — $9,000 · EducationBremen Edu…THE REAL THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $8,000 · Religion
Other$79,170Animals$52,190Human Services$33,967Education$19,000Arts & Culture$10,000Religion$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEWELL MILL INC — $26,467 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE REAL THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOak Mountain Academy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBremen Educational Foundation Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
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 GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SEWELL MILL INC
  • Who funds THE REAL THEATRE
  • Who funds Oak Mountain Academy Inc
  • Who funds Bremen Educational Foundation Inc
  • Who funds SOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC
  • Who funds RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC
  • Who funds Haralson County Historical Society

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Warren P and Ava F Sewell 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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