How much did CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Arts & Culture$11MInternational$9.5MReligion$5.9MRecreation & Sports$3.5MHuman Services$3.5MEducation$3.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MYouth Development$1.5MFood & Nutrition$997kOther$26M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

—

2020

savannah

2021

recipienttheatre

2022

recipienttheatre

2023

recipienttheatre

2025

recipientarts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 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

States reached

$357M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
BEARINGS BIKE$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

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, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 65% 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 26% — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$62M · 38 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 +128% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$62M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%

+35%

Still filing today

71%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationReligionOther

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

TG
THE GALLOWAY SCHOOL INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $10M · revenue +56%
JT
JOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA
4× · 2022–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +4110% · 93% of their budget
CO
CITY OF REFUGE
4× · 2022–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +55%

Funded once

FI
FAITH INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +130%
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.

Atlanta Ballet Inc

Atlanta Ballet shares the power & joy of dance through a balanced, rich & diverse repertoire. It broadens dance appreciation, instruction, and education throughout the community.

Arts & Culture

The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

Inspiring girls to lead lives of purpose.

—

Arts Critic Atl Inc

Arts atl is a non-profit organization that promotes a healthy and vibrant arts community in metro atlanta.

—

Atlanta Speech School Inc

To bring deep reading to each and every child so they can find their voice to determine their own future and make the greatest difference in the lives of others.

Education

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Atlanta Woman's Club

To encourage our members to become interested, involved citizens of the community by engaging in the charitable activities that benefit the community as a whole.

Community Improvement

Georgia Youth Sports Alliance Inc

—

Atlanta Track Club Inc

Committed to creating an active atlanta through running and walking, atlanta track club motivates, inspires, and engages our community to enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

Recreation & Sports

Georgia Youth Science and Tech Cent

Promote interest and enthusiasm in science and the technologies, particularly among elementary and middle school teachers and youth in the state of georgia

—

Atlanta Association of Legal

—

Special Olympics Georgia Inc

To provide year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…

Recreation & Sports

Global Arts Project Inc

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 Wellspring Living Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/45

the rest of the field

15%

6,482/41,923

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.

06the grantee network

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

39/44

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$30,382,286Arts & Culture$10,747,912International$9,500,000Religion$5,866,667Recreation & Sports$3,525,245Human Services$3,503,967Education$3,319,250

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.

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 Foundation for GreaterGA33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland · The Goizueta Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA · St and Margaret D Harris Fdn Im · RothkopfGreenberg Family

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 42.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201405142 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JOIN TOGETHER SOCIETY AMERICA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chestnut Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chestnut Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chestnut Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chestnut Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph