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AT&T Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2022
518
Grants FY2022
51
States reached
$5.0M
Largest

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

617
’20
425
’21
394
’22
1
’23
1
’24

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

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
$20,000
Median grant
51
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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.

area typical 10%Walking Shield Inc: $20k → 10%LIFT TO RISE: $20k → 11%Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu: $36k → 9%SISTER TO SISTER INTERNATIONAL INC: $25k → 9%Jewish Community Center of Staten Island: $25k → 11%Community Based Care of Central Florida: $25k → 13%TAMPA BAY ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%Hmong American Friendship Association: $25k → 17%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA: $50k → 9%Mountain Plains Youth Services Coalition: $23k → 10%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 6%Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield: $25k → 7%INFO LINE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $30k → 11%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $36k → 9%Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc: $25k → 14%Kramden Institute: $25k → 11%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $50k → 6%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $30k → 9%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 6%Avenidas: $25k → 8%BE NIMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 16%United Community Ministries Inc: $25k → 6%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $50k → 14%Recapturing the Vision International Inc: $25k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $37k → 16%CHILDNET: $25k → 13%Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $80k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%American Red Cross: $65k → 14%VETSINTECH: $25k → 10%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $40k → 23%Young Men's Christian Assoc of Metropolitan LA: $50k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25k → 14%Mission Neighborhood Centers Inc: $35k → 10%COALITION OF TEXANS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $25k → 10%Quest Community Development Organization Inc: $98k → 13%COALITION OF TEXANS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $25k → 10%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $75k → 13%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION INC: $48k → 14%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%Thrive Chicago NFP: $45k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 246 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

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

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.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
United Way of Central Iowa

To improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community

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4
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
5
United Way of East Central Iowa

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

Philanthropy
6
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
7
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
8
Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy
9
The Attainment Network

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.

Education
10
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
11
United Way of Johnson & Washington Counties Inc

United way of johnson & washington counties, inc. (uwjwc) unites in purpose to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
218
Early backer (in before they grew)
1104/1129
Grantees still filing
706/1129
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,250,769 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCAT&T EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $1,684,941 · PhilanthropyAT&T EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUNDCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION: $1,525,000 · PhilanthropyCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION+17 more: $3,304,718 · Philanthropy+17 moreYOURCAUSE AS FISCAL AGENT FOR UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $926,206 · OtherYOURCAUSE AS FISCAL AG…CITY YEAR INC: $435,400 · OtherWOMEN OF AT&T: $329,915 · Other+96 more: $7,968,538 · Other+96 moreDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC: $1,325,000 · EducationDISTRIBUTI…UPCHIEVE INC: $440,000 · EducationUPCHIEVE I…INSPIRASIAN: $274,335 · EducationINSPIRASIA…THE FOUNDATION FOR THE COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE: $260,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDA…COMP-U-DOPT INC: $225,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Education+27 more: $1,780,750 · Education+27 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $445,000 · Youth DevelopmentHACEMOS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $391,086 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $377,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $157,000 · Youth DevelopmentSeattle Storm Foundation: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $79,000 · Youth Development+14 more: $790,000 · Youth DevelopmentROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $200,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $99,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO THEATER COMPANY: $85,000 · Arts & CultureOpening Act Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD): $75,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $520,000 · Arts & CultureICOULDBEORG INC: $920,000 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $150,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $68,000 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $50,000 · EmploymentTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $728,500 · Public Safety & DisasterINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $450,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$26,765,428Other$9,660,059Education$4,505,085Youth Development$2,329,086Arts & Culture$2,209,000Employment$1,188,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,178,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,250,769 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAT&T EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $1,684,941 over 3y, 37% of budgetCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION: $1,525,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC: $1,325,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetICOULDBEORG INC: $920,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $858,580 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $728,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $450,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $445,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTELECOMPIONEERS: $445,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC: $440,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $435,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHACEMOS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $391,086 over 3y, 44% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $377,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC: $275,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetINSPIRASIAN: $274,335 over 3y, 40% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $273,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE: $260,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetDIVERSITY ORGANIZATION LLC: $245,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $225,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $200,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $200,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNPOWER INC: $193,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $192,380 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $190,003 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $167,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $157,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $152,251 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $148,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $142,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARTOUT: $130,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $130,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $124,167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $108,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Fresno and Madera Counties: $107,443 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHAPTER ONE NFP: $105,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $102,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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