· Private foundation
Bennett Thrasher Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $509k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPHERD CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FAM INC | $25,000 |
| STERLING LEGACY FUND | $20,000 |
| MAHOGANY SISTAS 4 LIFE INC | $15,000 |
| NO LONGER BOUND | $15,000 |
| THRIVE ACADEMY ATLANTA | $15,000 |
| LEADERSHIP PERIMETER | $15,000 |
| 4KIRA4MOMS | $15,000 |
| CHRIS 180 | $15,000 |
| VOGEL | $15,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETT ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| JASON CUNNINGHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP | $15,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA - ATL AREA COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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, $399k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 20 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- SSSandy Springs Mission Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +23%
- PTPEBBLE TOSSERS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +125%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- DSDELLA SHOWERS MINISTRYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MSMEN STOPPING VIOLENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -97%
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.
It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
To assist the homeless and the needy.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world.
Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…
Beloved atlanta is an anti-sex trafficking organization lovingly equipping brave women on their path to freedom. we accomplish this through safe housing, mental health services, thrength based case management, and healthy community.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Helping Oppressed Mothers Endure. 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 24 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
179 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. 179 of the 261 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Sandy Springs Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds PEBBLE TOSSERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC ↗
- Who funds VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds TOMMY NOBIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds JASON CUNNINGHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of FAM Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Jeffrey Campbell Evans Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP KUDZU INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Thrive Academy Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS CBWW INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds THE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HERON NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND 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: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Bennett Thrasher 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.