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Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$236kHuman Services$125kEducation$107kReligion$62kHousing & Shelter$50kFood & Nutrition$48kCrime & Legal$27kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTA UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF$8,327
AU COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH SERVICE$8,327
AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$8,327
GAP MINISTRIES OF AUGUSTA$8,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$7,500
CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES$7,000
HOPE HOUSE INC$6,000
MIRACLE MAKING MINISTRIES$6,000
SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA$6,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE CENTER$5,000
PROJECT REFRESH$5,000
RESTART AUGUSTA INC$5,000
KIDS RESTART INC$5,000
AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN$4,800
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $15k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PROJECT REFRESH: $5k → 18%PROJECT REFRESH: $3k → 18%PROJECT REFRESH: $3k → 18%SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC: $5k → 18%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$630k · 21 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$630k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-37%

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • CS
    Cancer Support Services Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +61%
  • SH
    SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +94%
  • CC
    CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • HF
    HARRISBURG FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WH
    WHEN HELP CAN'T WAIT
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -37%
  • SA
    SALVATON ARMY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

1
Augusta Wellness Solutions

Human wellness

Human Services
2
Augusta Community Caring Center Inc

Food Pantry, Utility Assistance, Clothing and Household Items Assistance

Community Improvement
3
Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc

The mission of the Community Advanced Practice Nurses (CAPN) is to strengthen the lives of persons who are medically underserved and to help interrupt the cycle of poverty and homelessness for these individuals. Healthy independence is…

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4
Augusta Counseling Ministry

The purpose of Augusta Counseling Ministry is to provide professional counseling to hurting individuals helping them learn how to cope with past and current traumatic issues anxiety and depression faced in their personal lives.

Health
5
Life House Atlanta Inc
Human Services
6
Hands Across Decatur Inc

Homeless prevention outreach

Human Services
7
Ascensa Health Inc

Ascensa health provides a behavioral health system of care that sustains recovery and returns individuals to their communities and families.

Health
8
Kick Hunger Corporation

Feeding and providing shelter for the hungry

Housing & Shelter
9
Serenity Hill Inc

To provide services to victims of violence, crime, and abuse.

Health
10
Augusta Rescue Mission

Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…

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11
Hope House of North Georgia Inc

Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.

Human Services
12
Augusta Resources for Resilience Opportunity & Wellness

Charitable mental health service organization

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 28 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $78,327 · OtherAUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGERESTART AUGUSTA INC: $40,000 · OtherRESTART AUGUSTA INCAUGUSTA UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF: $35,827 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OFGAP MINISTRIES INC: $34,665 · OtherGAP MINISTRIES INCAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING: $34,531 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSINGRAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $22,000 · OtherRAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICESTHE SALVATION ARMY: $21,659 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYRAPE CRISIS & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $15,000 · OtherJUD C HICKEY CENTER: $12,820 · Other+8 more: $40,940 · Other+8 moreCancer Support Services Inc: $57,500 · HealthCancer Support Services IncCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC: $48,500 · HealthCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SER…HOPE HOUSE INC: $47,883 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INCVIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC: $7,410 · HealthSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC: $50,711 · Human ServicesSAFE HOMES…PROJECT REFRESH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT RE…GAP Ministries of Augusta Inc: $32,465 · Food & NutritionAUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN LLC: $15,800 · Food & NutritionMIRACLE MAKING MINISTRIES INC: $27,000 · ReligionKIDS RESTART INC: $26,000 · Crime & LegalTUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$335,769Health$161,293Human Services$60,711Food & Nutrition$48,265Religion$27,000Crime & Legal$26,000Philanthropy$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCancer Support Services Inc: $57,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC: $50,711 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC: $48,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $47,883 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetRESTART AUGUSTA INC: $40,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetGAP Ministries of Augusta Inc: $32,465 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMIRACLE MAKING MINISTRIES INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS RESTART INC: $26,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetAUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN LLC: $15,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT REFRESH INC: $10,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFORCESUNITED INC: $8,377 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC: $7,410 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUGUSTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $936 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Cancer Support Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTART AUGUSTA INC ↗
  • Who funds GAP Ministries of Augusta Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE MAKING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS RESTART INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN LLC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT REFRESH INC ↗
  • Who funds FORCESUNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WHEN HELP CAN'T WAIT ↗
  • Who funds TUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Creel-Harison Foundat…University Health Ser…United Way of the Csr…The Knox FoundationClinton-Anderson Hosp…Richards Family Found…Cullum FoundationGeorgia Health Initia…Tr Uw Charles I BrananGeorgia Power Foundat…The Bank of America C…
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · University Health Services Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · The Knox Foundation · Clinton-Anderson Hospital Inc · Richards Family Foundation · Cullum Foundation · Georgia Health Initiative Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Widows Home funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Widows Home. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 28 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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