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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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$63kEnvironment$54kFood & Nutrition$37kCrime & Legal$34kEducation$29kInternational$12kHealth$11kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE ESSENTIALS$14,000
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES$6,500
MOUNTAIN TRUE$5,500
HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM$5,000
ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS$3,500
SHARE MY MEALS$3,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE TRUST$3,000
ARTS FOR LIFE$2,500
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
NATIONAL AVIARY$2,000
PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC$2,000
ART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC$1,500
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC$1,500
MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER$1,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $15k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $14k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $7k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $7k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $6k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $5k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $5k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $4k → 20%SHARE MY MEALS: $3k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $3k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $3k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $3k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $2k → 11%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

ME
WA
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MO
VA
AZ
NC
SC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 26 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
6

Total granted

$258k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+3%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LE
    LITTLE ESSENTIALS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +181%
  • PL
    PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +274%
  • M
    MountainTrue
    8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +3%
  • E
    ED2
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • RI
    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +3%
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 Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

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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5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
10
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

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.

Environment
11
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
12
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 38 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $62,500 · Human ServicesLITTLE ESSENTIALSSHARE MY MEALS INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesSHARE MY MEALS INCDAVIDSON COLLEGE TRUST: $16,000 · OtherDAVIDSON COLLEGE TRUSTAsheville GreenWorks: $14,750 · OtherAsheville GreenWorksPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 · OtherPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY …Individual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientED2: $2,500 · OtherNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $2,800 · OtherPRINCETON CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $4,000 · OtherPRINCETON CHILDREN'S FUND INC+13 more: $15,450 · Other+13 morePISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $33,750 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGAL SERVI…Make the Road New York: $11,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New …MountainTrue: $30,750 · EnvironmentMountainTrueFRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE: $4,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PRINC…BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOOD: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentArts For Life: $11,250 · Arts & CultureSt Louis ArtWorks: $3,500 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureHunger Intervention Program: $8,750 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · International
Human Services$76,000Other$70,500Crime & Legal$44,750Environment$39,250Arts & Culture$18,750Food & Nutrition$13,250International$11,500

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 budgetLITTLE ESSENTIALS: $62,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $33,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMountainTrue: $30,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $14,750 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSHARE MY MEALS INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetArts For Life: $11,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMake the Road New York: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $8,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $4,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOOD: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…The Robert Wood Johns…George H and Estelle …The Snyder Family FundThe Community Foundat…Community Foundation …American Express Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Atkins Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Atkins Family 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 38 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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