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The W Mansfield Jennings JR

Hawkinsville, GA · EIN 58-1880477. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,412,721 to 40 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,412,721granted, 2021-2025
40recipients, as named on its returns
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,638,430assets, 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 $4,000 and $15,000; 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
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
19 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Taylor Memorial Care FoundationHawkinsville, GA$374,091432024
Middle Georgia State UniversityMacon, GA$257,350442025
Mercer UniversityMacon, GA$193,000442025
University of GeorgiaAthens, GA$105,500552025
Central Ga Technical FoundationMacon, GA$76,250552025
Museum of Aviation FoundationWarner Robins, GA$62,500552025
Rome Chamber Music FestivalNew Canaan, CT$61,000552025
Hawkinsville Pulaski Co Arts CounciHawkinsville, GA$44,000552025
Pulaski County Education FoundationHawkinsville, GA$39,000442024
Taylor Regional Hospital FoundationHawkinsville, GA$23,600112021
Reach Ga FoundationTucker, GA$20,000552025
The Otis Redding FoundationMacon, GA$20,000332025
Pulaski County ElementaryHawkinsville, GA$18,950222025
Educational Pathways IncEstero, FL$15,000332025
Little Carnegie of the SouthMacon, GA$15,000112025
St Lukes Episcopal ChurchHawkinsville, GA$15,000112025
Agnes Scott College FundDecatur, GA$10,000112021
Rescue Mission of Middle GeorgiaMacon, GA$10,000222023
Abraham Baldwin Agricultrual CollegTifton, GA$5,000112025
Chabad House - Lubavitch IncNew Brunswick, NJ$5,000112022
Community Foundation of Central GaMacon, GA$5,000112023
Community Foundation of Central GeoMacon, GA$5,000112025
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
Macon Chamber of CommerceMacon, GA$810222025
Mount Hope 9Hawkinsville, GA$500112025
Perry Players Community TheatrePerry, GA$500112025
Pulaski County EXTENSION4-HHawkinsville, GA$500112024
River Rat Art ProjectHawkinsville, GA$400222024
Pulaski County SchoolsHawkinsville, GA$270112023

16 of 40 (40%) 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 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 46 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.

Education
20 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 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
202518$253,134$10,000

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

94% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Georgia
$1.3M
Connecticut
$61K
Florida
$15K
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 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsThe Peyton Anderson Foundation7 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 The W Mansfield Jennings JR'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: 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.

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