· Private foundation
AT&T Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of AT&T Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
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: 394 organizations, $19M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k115 grants · $339k
- $10k–50k336 grants · $6.9M
- $50k–250k61 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $7.0M
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120,000 |
| Pioneers | $120,000 |
| Women of AT&T | $106,970 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +95% · 71% of their budget
- DEDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +176%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- YAYOURCAUSE AS FISCAL AGENT FOR UNITED WAY WORLDWIDEone grant, 2020 · $926k
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCone grant, 2020 · $859k · revenue -4%
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +65%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
To improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community
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.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
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…
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.
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…
United way of johnson & washington counties, inc. (uwjwc) unites in purpose to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
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…
How this is measured
1129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AT&T EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds CORPSGIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ICOULDBEORG INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds TELECOMPIONEERS ↗
- Who funds UPCHIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds HACEMOS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRASIAN ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY ORGANIZATION LLC ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds NEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
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.
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)
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization AT&T Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AT&T Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rogers State University Foundation: 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Florida Education Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Clean the World Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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