Georgia · Private foundation
Act Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,360,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Act Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $866k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $3.1M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.9M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $2.9M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $2.1M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $6,490,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Entitlements How Inc | $1,500,000 | 6 | 15% |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc | $750,250 | 5 | 8% |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $510,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 1% |
| North Atlantic Salmon Fund | $400,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Path Foundation Inc | $365,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc | $265,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($562k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Act Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Act Foundation Inc
- How much does Act Foundation Inc give?
- Act Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $4,089,918 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Act Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Animals (12%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Act Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Vanderbilt University ($6.5M), Entitlements How Inc ($1.5M), The Westminster Schools Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Act Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Act Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Act Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Act Foundation Inc based?
- Act Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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