About Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc uses a regional platform to move large amounts of capital into education, health, basic needs, and community recovery across the CSRA. Its recent grants show a strong concentration in Augusta and the surrounding area, with major support for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta, the Medical College of Georgia Foundation Inc, and the American Red Cross of Georgia. Those awards sit alongside funding for schools, food assistance, workforce and youth programs, and place-based initiatives tied to local neighborhoods and counties.
The foundation also funds through a mix of competitive and donor-established programs, including community grants, scholarships, literacy pilots, and response-and-recovery funds. Recent awards indicate that it supports both long-running community institutions and time-sensitive needs, such as disaster response and recovery in the region. Its grantmaking is broad in subject matter but still anchored to the CSRA service area, with recipients in Georgia and nearby South Carolina communities. The pattern suggests a funder that combines discretionary philanthropy with structured local programs designed to support residents, schools, and nonprofit capacity over time.
What Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Funds
In youth development, the foundation gave $1,434,819 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta and $367,703 to the same organization in 2023, showing sustained support for after-school and youth-serving work. Education appears in several forms: $1,069,965 to Aquinas High School and $507,500 to Junior Achievement of Georgia Inc, which points to support for schooling and career preparation.
Health-related giving is visible in grants to the Medical College of Georgia Foundation Inc, including $1,311,724 in 2025 and $819,217 in 2024, along with $348,000 to Via Cognitive Health Inc. Community support and basic needs also appear through $657,871 to Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc and $383,098 to The Salvation Army - Southern Territory. The foundation’s portfolio includes local public-benefit work as well, such as $391,000 to The City of Augusta and $346,483 to City of Aiken.
How Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Gives
Typical grant size sits at $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $19,400 at the median, and $38,750 at the 75th percentile. The recent grants list also includes several much larger awards, showing a wide spread between routine support and major commitments. Recipients appear across multiple years, including Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta, Medical College of Georgia Foundation Inc, Block by Block, Eab, Hub for Community Innovation Inc, City of Aiken, and Via Cognitive Health Inc, which points to recurring relationships rather than one-off gifts only.
The foundation is a community foundation, and it also makes program-related investments. Its active programs include competitive community grants, scholarship funds, literacy initiatives, and response-and-recovery funding. Community Grants accepts unsolicited requests, while some place-based or time-limited programs do not.
