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Blanche Lipscomb Foundation Inc 26-28164
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEARINGS BIKE WORKS INC | $50,000 |
| JUMPSTART AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER | $25,000 |
| CONCRETE JUNGLE INC | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| PATH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METRO ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA WORKS | $10,000 |
| AGAPE | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- BSBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +32%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +51%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FEFULTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +656%
- TSTRINITY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +1%
- ARAG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlantaone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +23%
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.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Atlanta habitat for humanity transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families.
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…
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…
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…
Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Student Aid 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.
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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 31 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 Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
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- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FULTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta ↗
- Who funds Georgia Works Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Student Aid Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE JUNGLE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Health Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · AEC Trust · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan
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 Blanche Lipscomb Foundation Inc 26-28164 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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