· Private foundation
Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE TAIMAKA PROJECT | $75,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE INC | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FDN | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $1,000 |
| STARR COMMONWEALTH | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $543k · revenue +109%- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE8× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +57%
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -16%
Feeding Americaone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +17%- PTPOWER TO DECIDEone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +6%
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 dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ansley Park Beautification Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 38 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 PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAIMAKA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds POWER TO DECIDE ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Actors Express Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ENDURING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
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 Virginia & Charles Brewer Family Foundation · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation 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.