· Public charity
Buckhead Rotary Foundation Inc
To contribute to various charitable organizations in support of their endeavors.
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.
The 10 grants below total $185,228 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $255,228 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHASTAIN HORSE PARK | $50,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER INC | $26,230 |
| ATLANTA AREA BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $26,000 |
| THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AIS-HORIZONS SUMMER PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM INC | $8,998 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER ATLANTA | $7,000 |
| OPEN HAND | $7,000 |
| FREEST INC | $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 (FY17–21, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 Council9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +32%
- CPChastain Park Conservancy Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +162%
- AFATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $79k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +455%
- OUOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +43%
- BHBUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +26%
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…
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…
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…
We mobilize the Atlanta community to tackle our city's most pressing needs.
In a world becoming exponentially more complex, girls will face challenges in college and beyond that will require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and confidence to be solved. at atlanta girls' school (ags), we teach girls to be…
Through the time, talent, and resources of corporate, education, and community partners, Junior Achievement of Georgia inspires and prepares young people, K-12th grade, to succeed in a global economy. All programs align with Georgia's…
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Rotary Club of Atlanta (the "Club"), a nonprofit organization, was chartered by Rotary International ("RI") in 1913. The club promotes the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of…
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Companions for Heroes. 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 28 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 29 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ROTARY STUDENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillside Inc ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIVABLE BUCKHEAD INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ROTARY DISTRICTS CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds Companions for Heroes ↗
- Who funds Street Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY NMTC 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Goizueta Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Jack and Anne Glenn Char Fdn · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main
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 Buckhead Rotary 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.
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