How much did Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2020

addressing homelessnesshomelessness meals

2021

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

03FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

$10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$22,275

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 (FY17–20, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.9M · 4 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

313

Total granted

$5.9M

$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%

+33%

Still filing today

50%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionCrime & LegalOther

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

FEEDING AMERICA
2× · 2020–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +77%
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
3× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA INC
2× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M

Funded once

CO
CITY OF REFUGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
3N
3DE NATIONAL LLCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
FO
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $825k · revenue +99%

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.

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

The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

Inspiring girls to lead lives of purpose.

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Greater Atlanta Christian Schools Inc

To help each student grow as jesus did, in wisdom and stature, and in favor with god and man.

Education

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

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

Junior Achievement of Georgia Inc

To partner with the business community to teach financial literacy to grades k-12.

International

City Academy of Atlanta Inc

City academy of atlanta, inc. believes that discipling our own children is best accomplished within a community of likeminded families on mission together. our purpose is to serve the family through offering a model of deliberate…

Education

Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development

Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives…

Education

Georgia Christian School Inc

To promote the education of children in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade in a christian atmosphere.

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Leadership Atlanta Inc

Educational programs to discuss & research social, political, economic & matters of metro areas.

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Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc

Our mission at Girls Incorporated of Greater Atlanta (GIGA) is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our programs are evidence-based, aligned with the national Girls Incorporated evaluations, and tailored to meet the unique…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is President and Fellows of Harvard College. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/124

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,441

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

115 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)

104/115

Grantees still filing

85/115

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,599,212Food & Nutrition$3,217,275Human Services$2,131,200Religion$1,226,048Youth Development$1,169,250Crime & Legal$338,600Philanthropy$289,000

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 GreaterGA51.6× affinity38 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 · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater · THDF II Inc DBA · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · Southern Company Gas Charitable

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 Chick-fil-A 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: CAMPUS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201820407 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 CAMPUS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
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 Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc 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.

Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

115 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc?

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Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

115 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph