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Atkins Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE ESSENTIALS | $14,000 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $6,500 |
| MOUNTAIN TRUE | $5,500 |
| HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS | $3,500 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE TRUST | $3,000 |
| SHARE MY MEALS | $3,000 |
| ARTS FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL AVIARY | $2,000 |
| PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC | $1,500 |
| ART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC | $1,500 |
| MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LELITTLE ESSENTIALS8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +181%
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +274%
- MMountainTrue8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +258%
Funded once
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +3%- EED2one grant, 2017 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
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The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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.
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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LITTLE ESSENTIALS ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds SHARE MY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Carolina Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOOD ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · The Snyder Family Fund · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Atkins Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
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.
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