· Private foundation
Atlanta Hawks Foundation Inc
THE ATLANTA HAWKS FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO INCREASE ACCESS FOR METRO ATLANTA'S YOUTH TO PLAY, GROW AND LEARN LIFE AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGH BASKETBALL.
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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
- $250k+1 grant · $843k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDREW & WALTER YOUNG FAMILY YMCA | $842,750 |
| GEORGIA RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| VISION 2 LEARN | $100,000 |
| GRANT PARK CONSERVANCY | $85,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $50,000 |
| GEORGIA ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $25,000 |
| BLAZESPORTS AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $893k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $393k · revenue +57%
VISION TO LEARN5× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +250%- PPPARK PRIDE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- EUEmory Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +54%
- COCity of College Park Parks and Cultural Artsone grant, 2018 · $92k
- RARON ANDERSON RECREATIONAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $88k
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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Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
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Our mission is to offer nationally competitive intercollegiate athletic programs which reflect the interests of our students and faculty, the Southeastern Conference, and the people of Georgia, and provide a worthwhile experience for our…
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Pride Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tru Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Grant Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BlazeSports America Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Pan Asian Community Services ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds TRU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation 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: Atlanta Braves Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Atlanta Hawks Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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