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C F Foundation Inc

Organized & operated to support the community foundation for greater atlanta, inc.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$12MCommunity Improvement$11MReligion$9.6MPhilanthropy$1.9MYouth Development$844kHealth$540kArts & Culture$360kFood & Nutrition$261kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+9 grants · $8.6M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$3,000,000
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION$1,951,000
GROVE PARK FOUNDATION$750,000
FCS URBAN MINISTRIES$750,000
PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA$750,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$500,000
COR INC$310,000
RAISING EXPECTATIONS$300,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CDC$250,000
GIWAYEN MATA INC$240,000
RESTORATION ATL MISSION INC$210,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVILHUMAN RIGHTS$200,000
FRESH FILMS$108,375
CHRIS 180 INC$100,000
HOPEBOUND MENTAL HEALTH$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $246k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GA: $500 → 13%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING: $75k → 13%CHRIS 180 INC: $100k → 14%ATLANTA VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $60k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 13 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$32M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+35%

Still filing today

92%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MM
    MACEDONIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $9.3M · revenue +54% · 77% of their budget
  • EL
    EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +45% · 33% of their budget
  • PB
    PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +328% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • AB
    ALSTON & BIRD CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $133k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue 0%
  • FW
    FOOD WELL ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +20%
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
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
2
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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3
Every Student Every Community Inc

Redefined atlanta engages communities, advocates for equity, and funds critical work to drive systemic level improvement in k-12 public education for students and families.

Education
4
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

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…

Education
5
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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6
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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7
Park Pride Inc

Park pride believes in the power of parks, and we work to help neighborhood groups create a network of greenspaces that contribute to the overall health and well-being of atlanta.

Recreation & Sports
8
Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Acfb Support Organization Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…

Philanthropy
11
Horizons Atlanta Inc

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.

Youth Development
12
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Doc On Wheels; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 76 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
43/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $8,678,695 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINCPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC: $6,731,000 · PhilanthropyPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC+5 more: $121,000 · PhilanthropyMACEDONIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION INC: $9,311,833 · ReligionMACEDONIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $260,000 · ReligionGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $2,030,652 · Community ImprovementGROVE PARK FOUND…FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,822,916 · Community ImprovementFCS URBAN MINIST…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,656,906 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $2,045,652 · EducationPURPOSE BUI…DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,070,848 · EducationDREW CHARTE…RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $300,000 · EducationRAISING EXP…+8 more: $255,650 · Education+8 moreNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureGIWAYEN MATA INC: $240,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH FILMS: $108,375 · Arts & CultureWYLDE CENTER INC: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOR INC: $310,000 · Youth DevelopmentEAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOWER UP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentALSTON & BIRD CHARITABLE FUND: $133,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $50,000 · OtherTHE STUDY HALL INC: $50,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $49,086 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $41,400 · OtherCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $70,000 · OtherSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · OtherCHRIS 180 INC: $100,000 · OtherODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTERIN: $75,000 · OtherAtlanta Victim Assistance Inc: $60,000 · OtherHopebound Mental Health: $75,000 · OtherSCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 · Other+24 more: $321,695 · Other
Philanthropy$15,530,695Religion$9,571,833Community Improvement$5,520,474Education$3,672,150Arts & Culture$948,375Youth Development$495,000Other$1,175,181

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 budgetMACEDONIAN MINISTRY FOUNDATION INC: $9,311,833 over 4y, 77% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $8,678,695 over 5y, 33% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC: $6,731,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $2,045,652 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $2,030,652 over 5y, 21% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,822,916 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,656,906 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,070,848 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOR INC: $310,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIWAYEN MATA INC: $240,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetRESTORATION ATL MISSION INC: $210,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRESH FILMS: $108,375 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $102,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $90,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTERIN: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHopebound Mental Health: $75,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetEAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC: $60,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetAtlanta Victim Assistance Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPOWER UP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $49,086 over 1y, 20% of budgetEmory University: $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCommunity Farmers Markets Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOUR TURN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWNC Communities: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…The Imlay Foundation …Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Arthur M Blank Fa…AEC TrustTull Charitable Found…Georgia Power Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Cousins Foundatio…The Sartain Lanier Fa…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA59.9× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · AEC Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Cousins Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc

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 C F Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C F Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to C F Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to C F 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 76 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 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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