Jefferson Energy Cooperative
Wrens, GA · EIN 34-2009414. Reported 84 grants totalling $803,967 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Jefferson Energy Cooperative, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,372 and the largest $18,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Creek High School | Augusta, GA | $45,371 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Middle School | Louisville, GA | $35,055 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harlem Middle School | Harlem, GA | $34,491 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Family Y Young Mens Christian Assoc-YWCA of the Csra Inc | Augusta, GA | $30,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thomson High School First Robotics | Thomson, GA | $28,667 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Wrens Fire Department | Wrens, GA | $28,476 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Apparo Academy Inc | Augusta, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Child Enrichment Inc | Augusta, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Veterans K9 Solutions Inc | Evans, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation | Augusta, GA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dellwood Volunteer Fire Department | Swainsboro, GA | $17,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stapleton Police Department | Stapleton, GA | $17,634 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jefferson County 4-H | Lousiville, GA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carver Elemetary School JR Beta Club | Wadley, GA | $16,220 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hope House Inc | Augusta, GA | $15,761 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation | Warrenton, GA | $11,555 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Youth Football Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Augusta Mini Theatre Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Benaiah Ministries Group Inc | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Broken Shackle Ranch Inc | Davisboro, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burn Foundation of America Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burn Foundation of America Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Louisville Fire Department | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Glascock County Recreation Dept | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Howard Manor Preservation Inc | Wrens, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson County Community Ships | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Community Ships for Youth | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jefferson County Historical Society Inc | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johnson County Seniorcitizen Center | Wrightsville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcduffie Care Inc | Thomson, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Appreciation Inc | Hiawassee, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rise Augusta Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Augusta Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Sunshine House Children's Advoc | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Academy | Louisville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thomson Family YMCA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Tlc Childrens Services Inc | Dublin, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Walter L Shepeard Community Blood Center Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westabou Montessori School | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| White Oak Campground | Appling, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wrens Dixie Youth Baseball Inc | Wrens, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warren County School District | $9,849 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Warren County Volunteer Fire Department | Warrenton, GA | $9,820 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Center of New Beginnings | $9,465 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| John Franklin Wren Chapter Nsdar | Wrens, GA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wadley Volunteer Fire Department | $8,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Glascock County Sheriff's Office | Gibson, GA | $8,682 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Senior Citizens Council of Greater Augusta | Augusta, GA | $8,682 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation | Waynesboro, GA | $8,455 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Safe Homes of Augusta Inc | Augusta, GA | $7,711 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harlem Middle School Athletics | Harlem, GA | $6,905 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America Southeastern Chapter Inc | Hephzibah, GA | $6,668 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Transformation Training Institute Inc | Martinez, GA | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ga Department of Natural Resources | Thomson, GA | $6,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Foumdaion for Agriculture Inc | Macon, GA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Connections of Warren County | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 60 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $226,566 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $206,480 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $191,632 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $179,289 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jefferson Energy Cooperative's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Pobox 457, Wrens, GA, 30833.
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