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Atairos Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Atairos Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$82kEducation$60kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$28kPhilanthropy$22kCivil Rights$21kInternational$20kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$24,000
ELS FOR AUTISM INC$7,500
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA$7,000
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$5,000
CITY TEAM - CHESTER$5,000
THE PEGGY AND PAUL SHELVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$4,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA$4,000
POWEL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$4,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$4,000
PROJECT SWEET PEAS$4,000
MIXTECA ORGANIZATION$4,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$3,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA$3,000
FATHER BILL ATKINSON SCULPTURE PROJECT$2,500
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 (FY22–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $10k → 6%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION: $4k → 20%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $4k → 7%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $500 → 15%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION: $1k → 20%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $3k → 7%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $500 → 15%UNITED IN HARMONY: $250 → 14%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $3k → 7%THE CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $200 → 15%UNITED IN HARMONY: $250 → 14%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $1k → 7%UNITED IN HARMONY: $100 → 14%BRIDGE TO RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 17%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

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Atairos Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Atairos Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 24 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
34

Total granted

$142k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+2%

Still filing today

83%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +60%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +19%
  • PS
    Project Sweet Peas
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue 0%
  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction; the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
34/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA: $13,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN …NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · OtherNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN I…POWEL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · OtherPOWEL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATI…JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $5,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $3,500 · OtherMOSAIC COMMUNITY CHURCH: $3,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $9,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADE…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · OtherSupport Center for Child Advocates: $5,000 · OtherCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $4,000 · Other+29 more: $25,465 · Other+29 moreTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,500 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR HOS…ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FO…THE PEGGIE AND PAUL SHEVLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE PEGGIE AND PA…THE BEE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthCAROL M BALDWIN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $2,500 · Health+8 more: $6,500 · Health+8 moreSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $15,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDU…ECHOING GREEN INC: $10,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN IN…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,251 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN INC: $6,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE R…THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-…+5 more: $3,600 · Education+5 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN…Project Sweet Peas: $10,500 · Human ServicesProject Sweet …RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $10,000 · Human ServicesRYAN'S CASE FO…MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECA ORGANI…BRIDGE TO RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGE TO RECO…+2 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN…THE CLAY STUDIO HOLDINGS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLAY STU…+2 more: $1,800 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $18,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…Save The Children Federation Inc: $13,500 · InternationalSave The Ch…AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN AU…+1 more: $1,100 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $22,150 · PhilanthropyTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $150 · Philanthropy
Other$95,465Health$53,500Education$50,351Human Services$44,800Arts & Culture$36,800International$35,100Philanthropy$26,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $22,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA: $13,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sweet Peas: $10,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO HOLDINGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,251 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN INC: $6,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE TO RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE BEE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAROL M BALDWIN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…United Way of Greater…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Cigna Group Found…American Express Foun…The Robert Wood Johns…America's CharitiesChubb Charitable Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The William Penn FoundationPA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · America's Charities · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Atairos Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atairos Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Atairos Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Atairos Charitable 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 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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