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Chatham Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$88k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,880
Median grant
3
States reached
$361k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ALPHARETTA$24,000
GLOBAL HOPE MINISTRIES$6,000
CAMP GRACE$3,880
WINNING WITH ENCOURAGEMENT$1,000
NO LONGER BOUND$1,000
BEACON OF HOPE$1,000
DEVELOPMENT DISABILITIES MINISTRIES$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NO LONGER BOUND: $1k → 4%DEVELOPMENT DISABILITIES MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%KING'S RIDGE: $50k → 13%CAMP GRACE: $4k → 17%BEACON OF HOPE: $1k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ALPHARETTA: $24k → 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.
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 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
A2 Ministries International Ltd
Religion
2
Transform Ministries
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3
Teaching Ministry of the Word of Truth

A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

Religion
4
Global Outreach Development Inc

Educate and mentor Christian Leaders

Religion
5
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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6
Dove On the Rise International

Expansion of the Gospel of Christ through training literature and digital teaching materials.

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7
Verticle Living Ministries

To equip disciples of Jesus Christ to balance and live their lives to glorify God in every area of life; spirituall, personally, communally and physically by

Religion
8
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
9
Gospel Lifeline Ministries

The mission is to train and equip leaders. To help all believers reach their full potential and divine destiny, that they may become all that God has called them to be.

Religion
10
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
11
Training Evangelistic Leadership

Recruit and train evangelistic teams

Religion
12
Beyond Ordinary Women Ministries
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Team Summer co Lynne Dale. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ALPHARETTA: $24,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ALPHARETTA+3 more: $3,000 · OtherGLOBAL HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · ReligionVision Atlanta Inc: $3,880 · Crime & LegalNO LONGER BOUND INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$77,000Religion$6,000Crime & Legal$3,880Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $3,880 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINNING WITH ENCOURAGEMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 8 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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