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Chestnut 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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$15MArts & Culture$10MInternational$9.6MSocial Science$6.0MReligion$5.9MPhilanthropy$5.5MYouth Development$3.3MHuman Services$2.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+15 grants · $14M
$172,400
Median grant
8
States reached
$320M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYN RAND INSTITUTE$3,500,000
JOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA$3,200,000
ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP$1,500,000
ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT$1,032,500
PATH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA$667,000
Individual grant recipient$650,000
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES$498,300
CORNERS OUTREACH$438,000
SOCCER IN THE STREETS$325,000
GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT$316,250
KATE'S CLUB$312,000
ROBERT WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$300,000
LAAMISTAD INC$297,850
GEORGIA HI-LO TRAIL INC$258,568
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HELPING MAMAS: $172k → 9%HELPING MAMAS: $161k → 9%HELPING MAMAS: $100k → 9%HELPING MAMAS: $25k → 9%HELPING MAMAS: $25k → 9%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $588k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $315k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $295k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $220k → 14%CHRIS 180: $200k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $150k → 14%CHRIS 180: $100k → 14%CHRIS 180: $41k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $450k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $312k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $300k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $50k → 14%CROSSROAD COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $60k → 13%CROSSROAD COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 13%CROSSROAD COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%CROSSROAD COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 95% of Chestnut Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Chestnut Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 35 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
15

Total granted

$58M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther

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

  • JT
    JOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +144% · 93% of their budget
  • AI
    ARTSNOW INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +265% · 44% of their budget
  • AM
    ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +79% · 73% of their budget

Funded once

  • FI
    FAITH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • SD
    SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • W
    WABE
    one grant, 2023 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Atlanta Ballet Inc

We enrich and inspire our audiences with performances of the highest level of excellence; we empower our students through superior dance education; and we serve our community through active engagement. it is our mission and our…

Arts & Culture
2
The Atlanta Academy Inc

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.

Education
3
College Aim Inc

To provide expert coaching from ninth grade through college graduation, and work to dismantle systemic racial and economic barriers, so that greater atlanta students are able to achieve their ambitions.

Education
4
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
5
Georgia Symphony Orchestra

The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…

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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
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
8
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

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…

Youth Development
9
Breakthrough Atlanta

Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…

Education
10
The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

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…

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11
Vox Teen Communications Inc

VOX ATL prepares teens for life, career, and community by harnessing the power of youth voice and uncensored self-expression.

Arts & Culture
12
Carolina Ballet Inc

Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Brag Dream Team 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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%9%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%2%<5yr17%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%47%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,246

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.

05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 64 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
29/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $6,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CE…ARTSNOW INC — $4,568,122 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW INCATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $3,279,290 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INCATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP …BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY — $760,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $1,185,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC — $10,000,000 · OtherTHE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INCIndividual grant recipient — $1,050,000 · OtherPATH FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherTransformations By Atlanta Angels — $845,000 · OtherTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $3,169,250 · OtherTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INCLaAmistad Inc — $823,350 · OtherFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC — $996,600 · OtherGEORGIA HI-LO TRAIL INC — $883,659 · Other+29 more — $3,994,657 · Other+29 moreJOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA — $9,500,000 · InternationalJOIN TOGETHER SO…CITY OF REFUGE — $5,841,667 · ReligionCITY OF R…+1 more — $25,000 · ReligionTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC — $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $1,384,000 · PhilanthropyJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc — $630,000 · PhilanthropyMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $1,567,500 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC — $1,112,000 · Human ServicesHELPING MAMAS INC — $483,179 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC — $341,288 · Human ServicesCrossroads Community Ministries Inc — $130,020 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION — $1,008,535 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In the Streets Inc — $901,250 · Recreation & SportsGEORGIA INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING LEAGUE — $725,460 · Recreation & SportsCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsBRAG DREAM TEAM INC — $230,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $110,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$17,292,912Other$22,762,516International$9,500,000Religion$5,866,667Philanthropy$4,264,000Human Services$3,633,987Recreation & Sports$3,525,245

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC — $10,000,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetJOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA — $9,500,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $6,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE — $5,841,667 over 4y, 12% of budgetARTSNOW INC — $4,568,122 over 8y, 44% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $3,279,290 over 8y, 73% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $3,169,250 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC — $2,250,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $1,567,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $1,384,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC — $1,112,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC — $996,600 over 2y, 19% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc — $901,250 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetGEORGIA HI-LO TRAIL INC — $883,659 over 5y, 65% of budgetTransformations By Atlanta Angels — $845,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetLaAmistad Inc — $823,350 over 3y, 18% of budgetBALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY — $760,500 over 6y, 40% of budgetGEORGIA INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING LEAGUE — $725,460 over 3y, 22% of budgetJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc — $630,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD — $550,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAugusta Mini Theatre Inc — $530,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC — $528,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAITH INC — $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $485,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING MAMAS INC — $483,179 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $362,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC — $341,288 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBRAG DREAM TEAM INC — $230,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetTHE AIMEE COPELAND FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetBAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $132,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc — $130,020 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMISS AMAZING INC — $102,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AFCEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC — $90,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT 58 INC — $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOUT OF HAND THEATER — $60,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDANCE CANVAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCOMMONLIT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWellspring Living Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCancer Support Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Waterfall Foundat…John H & Wilhelmina D…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Betty and Davis Fitzg…The Zeist Foundation …Tull Charitable Found…Joseph B Whitehead Fo…Fraser-Parker Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA44.7× affinity24 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Joseph B Whitehead Foundation · Fraser-Parker 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 Chestnut 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Our House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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By state
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