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Widows Home

Augusta, GA · EIN 58-0593440. Reported 70 grants totalling $411,025 to 28 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,250median grant
$411,025granted, 2021-2025
28recipients, as named on its returns
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,098,012assets, 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 $5,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $6,500; 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
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
54 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Augusta Univeristy School of NursingAugusta, GA$35,827442025
Augusta Technical College FoundationAugusta, GA$33,327442025
Gap Ministries of AugustaAugusta, GA$32,465442025
Safe Homes of AugustaAugusta, GA$30,500552025
Hope House IncAugusta, GA$29,000552025
Miracle Making MinistriesAugusta, GA$27,000552025
Restart Augusta IncAugusta, GA$25,000552025
Christ Community Health ServicesAugusta, GA$23,500442025
Cancer Support ServicesAugusta, GA$19,000332025
Kids Restart IncAugusta, GA$17,500552025
Augusta Locally GrownAugusta, GA$15,800332025
Rape Crisis & Sexual AssaultAugusta, GA$15,000332024
The Lydia ProjectAugusta, GA$12,500222022
Augusta Technical CollegeAugusta, GA$10,000112021
Augusta University College of NursingAugusta, GA$10,000112021
Project RefreshAugusta, GA$10,000332025
Au College of Allied Health ServiceAugusta, GA$8,327112025
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
Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault ServicesAugusta, GA$5,000112021
Salvation Army Augusta Area CommandAugusta, GA$5,000112021
Sexual Assault Response CenterAugusta, GA$5,000112025
When Help Can't WaitMartinez, GA$5,000112023
Salvaton ArmyAugusta, GA$4,800112024
Jud C Hickey CenterAugusta, GA$825112021

15 of 28 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 82%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 44 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Diseases & Disorders
5 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Mental Health
5 grants
Crime & Legal
5 grants
Religion
4 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
202514$90,281$6,000

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
$406K
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Community Foundation for the Central12 shared recipientsUniversity Health Services Inc10 shared recipientsCreel-Harison Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Csra Inc7 shared recipientsThe Knox Foundation6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,250. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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

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