· Private foundation
Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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