How much did AT&T Foundation grant in FY2022?

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year AT&T Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 393 organizations, $19M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

617

’20

425

’21

393

’22

’23

’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$27MEducation$13MYouth Development$5.6MArts & Culture$4.0MEmployment$3.8MHuman Services$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MOther$0

02FY2022 · 518 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k115 grants · $339k
$10k–50k336 grants · $6.9M
$50k–250k61 grants · $4.8M
$250k+6 grants · $7.0M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Online Giving Foundation	$5,000,000
CorpsGiving Foundation	$575,000
Distributive Education Clubs of America	$500,000
icouldbeorg	$425,000
St Bernard Project Inc	$300,000
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc	$250,000
Compudopt	$225,000
City Year Inc	$175,000
UPchieve	$175,000
HACEMOS Scholarship Foundation	$159,125
Volunteer Florida Foundation	$150,000
The Foundation for the College System of Tennessee	$130,000
Junior Achievement Worldwide	$120,000
Pioneers	$120,000
Women of AT&T	$106,970

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$24M · 246 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

246 repeat relationships — 181 still active in FY2022, 65 since wound down; 489 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

246

1223

Total granted

$24M

$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+11%

Still filing today

86%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CF
CORPSGIVING FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +95% · 71% of their budget
DE
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC
3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +176%
RW
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +10%

Funded once

YA
YOURCAUSE AS FISCAL AGENT FOR UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE
one grant, 2020 · $926k
UW
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
one grant, 2020 · $859k · revenue -4%
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +65%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy

United Way of Central Iowa

To improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community

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United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy

Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy

Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education

Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county. the united way of washington county envisions a community where everyone achieves their human potential through education, financial…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%8/1,176

the rest of the field

13%

240,388/1,818,389

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

1129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1129 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

211

Early backer (in before they grew)

1103/1129

Grantees still filing

704/1129

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$26,765,428Other$9,760,059Education$4,505,085Youth Development$2,329,086Arts & Culture$2,109,000Employment$1,188,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,178,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Centene FoundationMO56× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Siemer Institute · Pnc Foundation · Human-I-T · Truist Foundation Inc · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund · Wells Fargo Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization AT&T Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to AT&T Foundation?

Find your warmest path to AT&T Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines