· Private foundation
Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $939k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDREW COLLEGE | $1,242,936 |
| LAGRANGE COLLEGE | $1,042,936 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $515,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY CHANDLER SCHOOL | $440,000 |
| GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $375,000 |
| EPWORTH BY THE SEA | $300,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH | $249,000 |
| REINHARDT UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| THE VASHTI CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE | $100,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES | $70,000 |
| ST JOHN-PITTS MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN | $69,700 |
| MURPHY-HARPST CHILDRENS CENTERS INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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; $390k 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
- ACANDREW COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +58%
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +34%
- EBEpworth By The Sea Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- EHEMORY HEALTHCAREone grant, 2021 · $250k
- UUMCORone grant, 2024 · $128k
- WCWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The purpose of methodist university is to provide an undergraduate and graduate education firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition, that nurtures moral values & ethical decision-making; to provide distinctive professional & graduate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reinhardt University and the most unlike its peers is Emory University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 ANDREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Epworth By The Sea Inc ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Magnolia Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · St Marys Methodist Church Foundation I · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Independent College Association Inc · Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation · Beloco Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Soma Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Georgia Humanities Council 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 Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation 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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