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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$843k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.2MHuman Services$943kHealth$723kPhilanthropy$234kEducation$161kYouth Development$87kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
  • $250k+1 grant · $843k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDREW & WALTER YOUNG FAMILY YMCA$842,750
VISION 2 LEARN$100,000
GEORGIA RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INC$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $50k → 9%ANDREW & WALTER YOUNG FAMILY YMCA: $843k → 13%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.
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$1.8M
$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
Recreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $393k · revenue +57%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    5× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +250%
  • PP
    PARK PRIDE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • CO
    City of College Park Parks and Cultural Arts
    one grant, 2018 · $92k
  • RA
    RON ANDERSON RECREATIONAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $88k
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
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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2
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
5
Furman University

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.

Education
6
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
9
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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10
University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc

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…

Education
11
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
12
Augustana College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Pride Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $842,750 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUS…PARK PRIDE INC: $300,224 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INCGEORGIA RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · Recreation & SportsGEORGIA RECREATION AND PA…Grant Park Conservancy Inc: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsGrant Park Conservancy In…BlazeSports America Inc: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsBlazeSports America Inc+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDO GOODR: $233,750 · OtherDO GOODRFULTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: $111,238 · OtherFULTON COUNTY BOARD OF …City of College Park Parks and Cultural Arts: $92,208 · OtherCity of College Park Pa…RON ANDERSON RECREATIONAL CENTER: $88,350 · OtherRON ANDERSON RECREATION…DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA: $65,000 · OtherDEKALB COUNTY GEORGIACenter for Pan Asian Community Services: $50,000 · OtherCenter for Pan Asian Co…Hawks Summer Basketball Camp: $38,000 · OtherHawks Summer Basketball…GEORGIA ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $25,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $393,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCE…ANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyANDREW J YOUNG…VISION TO LEARN: $330,000 · HealthVISION TO L…Emory University: $100,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $17,000 · EducationSpelman College: $17,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GEORGIA INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRU FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$892,750Recreation & Sports$750,224Other$703,546Philanthropy$418,000Health$330,000Education$161,000Youth Development$112,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $393,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $330,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $300,224 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetGEORGIA RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetEmory University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrant Park Conservancy Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBlazeSports America Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GEORGIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCenter for Pan Asian Community Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 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.

Atlanta Braves Founda…Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Atlanta Braves FoundationGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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 Atlanta Hawks Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Atlanta Hawks Foundation Inc 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 27 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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