FundersGeorgia

Widows Home

Augusta, GA · EIN 58-0593440. Reported 56 grants totalling $320,744 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$320,744granted, 2021-2024
26organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,945,467assets, 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. Widows Home 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 $5,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $825 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
41 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

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
Augusta Univeristy School of NursingAugusta, GA$27,500332024
Augusta Technical College FoundationAugusta, GA$25,000332024
Safe Homes of AugustaAugusta, GA$24,500442024
Gap Ministries of AugustaAugusta, GA$24,465332024
Hope House IncAugusta, GA$23,000442024
Miracle Making MinistriesAugusta, GA$21,000442024
Restart Augusta IncAugusta, GA$20,000442024
Christ Community Health ServicesAugusta, GA$16,000332024
Rape Crisis & Sexual AssaultAugusta, GA$15,000332024
Kids Restart IncAugusta, GA$12,500442024
The Lydia ProjectAugusta, GA$12,500222022
Cancer Support ServicesAugusta, GA$12,000222024
Augusta Locally GrownAugusta, GA$11,000222024
Augusta Technical CollegeAugusta, GA$10,000112021
Augusta University College of NursingAugusta, GA$10,000112021
Via Cognitive HealthAugusta, GA$7,410222024
Gap MinistriesAugusta, GA$7,085112021
Salvation ArmyAugusta, GA$6,159112022
Christ Community Health Services Augusta IncAugusta, GA$5,000112021
Harrisburg Family Health CenterAugusta, GA$5,000112023
Project RefreshAugusta, GA$5,000222024
Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault ServicesAugusta, GA$5,000112021
Salvation Army Augusta Area CommandAugusta, GA$5,000112021
When Help Can't WaitMartinez, GA$5,000112023
Salvaton ArmyAugusta, GA$4,800112024
Jud C Hickey CenterAugusta, GA$825112021

15 of 26 (58%) 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 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Religion
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$72,910$5,000
202212$89,159$6,000
202316$79,044$5,000
202415$79,631$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

Augusta, GA
$316K
Martinez, GA
$5K

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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.

The Community Foundation for the Central12 shared recipientsCreel-Harison Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Csra Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsThe Knox Foundation6 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc4 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 Widows Home'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: 3010 Vassar Dr, Augusta, GA, 30909. 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 58-0593440 · 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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