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HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC

HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,443 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.2M)2018 Revenue 82 ($1.9M) Expenses 177 ($1.9M) Net assets 102 ($5.4M)2019 Revenue 45 ($1.0M) Expenses 127 ($1.3M) Net assets 94 ($4.9M)2020 Revenue 36 ($847k) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets 89 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 48 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 99 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 103 ($2.4M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 118 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 36 ($838k) Expenses 140 ($1.5M) Net assets 106 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 46 ($1.1M) Expenses 95 ($993k) Net assets 111 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (46)Expenses (95)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

36% of HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
17
$51k
18
$283k
19
$285k
20
$85k
21
$1.1M
22
$628k
23
$69k
24
7.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $164k → $25k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Navicent Health Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 82% · 2019 45% · 2020 67% · 2021 76% · 2022 81% · 2023 40%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 7 states in all.

NV
NJ
RI
NC
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 20%Fundraising 17%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Part of a family of 13 related entities

  • Historic Macon Properties LLC · disregarded
  • Historic Macon Profits LLC · disregarded
  • Historic Macon Community Investments LLC · disregarded
  • Historic Macon Rehabs · disregarded
  • 1227 Calhoun Street LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC?
HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,443 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,066,443 in grants to HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC?
JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing