· Private foundation
Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $21,000 |
| THE PICCADILLY PUPPETS COMPANY | $10,000 |
| FIRE ROCKETS | $7,000 |
| ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER | $6,000 |
| WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR | $5,000 |
| FEET ON THE STREET MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| VAMOS ADELANTE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC | $4,000 |
| ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC | $4,000 |
| THE FRAZER CENTER | $3,000 |
| TOOLBOX INC | $3,000 |
| FAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE SUMMIT COUNSELING CENTER | $3,000 |
| GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK | $3,000 |
| PRESENCIA | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FIFernbank Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +87%
- PPPICCADILLY PUPPETS CO6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +31% · 40% of their budget
- WIWOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TATHE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -99%
- AWATHENAS WAREHOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +11%
- MIMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.
Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…
To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
We mobilize the Atlanta community to tackle our city's most pressing needs.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
YWCA Greater Atlanta is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
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.
The mission of the atlanta neighborhood charter school (ancs) is to use the principles of the coalition of essential schools to: build an empowered and inclusive community of students,parents, and educators; engage the whole…
The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…
The Waldorf School of Atlanta develops in its students the will to become life-long learners by fostering in each student the ability to think with clarity, feel with compassion, and act with purpose in the world.
To increase student attendance and opportunities for success through legal and family advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frazer Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childspring International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 110 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 Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds PICCADILLY PUPPETS CO ↗
- Who funds VAMOS ADELANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds FEET ON THE STREET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY COURT INC ↗
- Who funds Presencia Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS ↗
- Who funds Timanous Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Collective Learning Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Works ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION ATL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRAZER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta 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 · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua 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.