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The W Mansfield Jennings JR

Hawkinsville, GA · EIN 58-1880477. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,159,587 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,159,587granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,715,924assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The W Mansfield Jennings JR did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $312,180. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Taylor Memorial Care FoundationHawkinsville, GA$374,091432024
Mercer UniversityMacon, GA$182,000332024
Middle Georgia State UniversityMacon, GA$172,916332024
University of GeorgiaAthens, GA$91,000442024
Museum of Aviation FoundationWarner Robins, GA$52,500442024
Central Ga Technical FoundationMacon, GA$51,250442024
Rome Chamber Music FestivalNew Canaan, CT$51,000442024
Pulaski County Education FoundationHawkinsville, GA$39,000442024
Taylor Regional Hospital FoundationHawkinsville, GA$23,600112021
Hawkinsville Pulaski Co Arts CounciHawkinsville, GA$20,000442024
Reach Ga FoundationTucker, GA$16,000442024
The Otis Redding FoundationMacon, GA$15,000222024
Agnes Scott College FundDecatur, GA$10,000112021
Educational Pathways IncEstero, FL$10,000222024
Rescue Mission of Middle GeorgiaMacon, GA$10,000222023
Chabad House - Lubavitch IncNew Brunswick, NJ$5,000112022
Community Foundation of Central GaMacon, GA$5,000112023
Hawkinsville First United MethodistHawkinsville, GA$5,000112024
Macon Mercer SymphonyMacon, GA$5,000112022
Faith in Families IncDublin, GA$3,000112022
American Daffodil Society IncUnionville, IN$2,500112022
Georgia Southern UniversityStatesboro, GA$2,500112021
Graves Methodist ChurchDawson, GA$2,500112021
The Mission ContinuesSt Louis, MO$2,500112023
Westfield SchoolsPerry, GA$2,500112021
Adventures in MissionsGainesville, GA$1,000112021
First Baptist Church of ShellmanShellman, GA$1,000112021
Pulaski TomorrowHawkinsville, GA$1,000112022
The Rescue RanchMcrae Helena, GA$1,000112024
Pulaski County EXTENSION4-HHawkinsville, GA$500112024
River Rat Art ProjectHawkinsville, GA$400222024
Macon Chamber of CommerceMacon, GA$360112024
Pulaski County SchoolsHawkinsville, GA$270112023
Pulaski County ElementaryHawkinsville, GA$200112024

14 of 34 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
16 grants
Arts & Culture
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Employment
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Religion
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$105,100$4,500
202214$165,750$6,250
202318$542,794$6,000
202418$345,943$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Georgia
$1.1M
Connecticut
$51K
Florida
$10K
New Jersey
$5K
Missouri
$2K
Indiana
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsThe Peyton Anderson Foundation5 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The W Mansfield Jennings JR's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 89, Hawkinsville, GA, 31036. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 58-1880477 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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