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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 it funds
01FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UWG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$10,000
OAK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY$10,000
THE REAL THEATRE$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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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, $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 its 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
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 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.

1
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.

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oak Mountain Academy Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 24 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.

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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
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEWELL MILL INC: $26,467 over 1y, 10% of budgetOak Mountain Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE REAL THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBremen Educational Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEWELL MILL INC ↗
  • Who funds Oak Mountain Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE REAL THEATRE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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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 Warren P and Ava F Sewell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren P and Ava F Sewell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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.

    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 24 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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