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Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$985k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
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 2024.

Education$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$734kPhilanthropy$513kReligion$330kEmployment$315kCommunity Improvement$313kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $601k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $345k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIS 180$80,000
SER FAMILIA$65,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$50,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$50,000
YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA$50,000
MARIETTA CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$50,000
GEORGIA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT INC$40,000
RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$40,000
THE LITERACY LAB$30,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$30,000
COVENANT HOUSE$30,000
HOPEBOUND$30,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER ATLANTA$30,000
HOPE ATLANTA$30,000
VERTICAL CHURCH$25,528
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA: $50k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 16%.

Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 129 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

129 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 95 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
170

Total granted

$5.2M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $435k · revenue +42%
  • C1
    CHRIS 180 INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +44%
  • GJ
    GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $172k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • ZH
    Zion Hill Community Development Corporation
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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2
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
3
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
4
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
5
Georgia Agape Inc

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…

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6
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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7
Leadership Atlanta Inc

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…

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8
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
9
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
11
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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12
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc

To protect and empower immigrant survivors of crime and persecution.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Catoosa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

174 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. 174 of the 325 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)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/174
Grantees still filing
126/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA: $150,000 · OtherGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $154,004 · Other+118 more: $3,560,548 · Other+118 moreCHRIS 180 INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INCSER FAMILIA: $107,500 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIAYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIST…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PATHW…AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $95,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAININ…VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA…QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesQUALITY CARE FOR C…ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $59,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $47,000 · Human Services+14 more: $356,770 · Human Services+14 moreGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $435,000 · EducationGeorgia State Un…RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationRICHMONT GRADUAT…Spelman College: $75,200 · EducationSpelman CollegeGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $75,000 · EducationGEORGIA PARTNERS…YEAR UP INC: $70,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCThe Walker School Inc: $53,300 · EducationMORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc: $40,000 · Education+13 more: $226,600 · Education+13 moreMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · HealthGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $125,100 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $45,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC: $45,000 · HealthRESILIENT GEORGIA INC: $30,000 · HealthThe Link Counseling Center Inc: $30,000 · HealthAtlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $25,000 · HealthGILGAL INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $122,080 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyLatino Community Fund Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $80,000 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $171,600 · Crime & LegalTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $140,000 · Crime & LegalEAST ATHENS DEVELOPMENT CORP INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalZion Hill Community Development Corporation: $75,000 · Housing & Shelter3KEYS INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Extension Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSERENADE HEIGHTS INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,864,552Human Services$1,295,270Education$1,165,100Health$490,100Philanthropy$462,080Crime & Legal$341,600Housing & Shelter$285,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $435,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $215,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $171,600 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $154,004 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $140,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $125,100 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $122,080 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $107,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $95,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $88,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $81,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSpelman College: $75,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetZion Hill Community Development Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Community Center: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budget3KEYS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMartin Luther King Sr Community Resources Collaborative: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $59,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Walker School Inc: $53,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $47,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $45,950 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $41,350 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $40,620 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Outreach and Advocacy Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF HENRY COUNTY: $39,800 over 2y, 25% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

The Imlay Foundation …United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananTull Charitable Found…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Waterfall Foundat…Tuw Thomas H PittsRyan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Tw Marian W Ottley At…AEC Trust
The Imlay Foundation IncGA133.4× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · AEC 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 Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Betty and Davis Fitzgerald 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 325 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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