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Chick-fil-A 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.

$72k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$3.2MEducation$2.8MYouth Development$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MRecreation & Sports$2.2MInternational$1.1MReligion$1.1MHousing & Shelter$759kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$22,275
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 (FY17–20, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $600k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $600k → 13%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE PATH PROJECT: $100k → 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 13%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GA CONFERENCE: $2k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $600k → 16%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%LAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $1k → 21%CARRIE STEELE PITTS HOME: $5k → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $25k → 14%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $3k → 14%CHRIS 180: $3k → 14%USHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $35k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $4k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $3k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $200k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $160k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $150k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $75k → 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

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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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 4 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
312

Total granted

$5.9M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthReligionOther
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

  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +40%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
    3× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +170%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Georgia
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue +120%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
  • 3N
    3DE NATIONAL LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +70%
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
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
2
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
3
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
4
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
5
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
6
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
7
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
8
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
9
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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Friends School of Atlanta

The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…

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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
12
Drew Charter School Inc

Drew charter school educates, nurtures and empowers all students to achieve their full potential as part of an exemplary, innovative, and equity-centered community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Operation Showers of Appreciation. 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

136 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. 136 of the 317 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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/136
Grantees still filing
102/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

3DE NATIONAL LLC: $1,000,000 · Other3DE NATIONAL LLCCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $630,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INCCOVENANT HOUSE PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE PENNSYLVANIAYMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA INC: $500,000 · OtherYMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA INCGEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER: $500,000 · OtherGEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTERJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GA: $325,000 · OtherATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Other+147 more: $3,065,932 · Other+147 moreFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,650,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRIS…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,150,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT …+10 more: $423,500 · Youth Development+10 moreFeeding America: $3,022,275 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $180,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Children Ev…+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE F…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $600,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE T…COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $600,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE W…WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $585,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE …PATH UNITED INC: $100,000 · Human Services+15 more: $309,200 · Human Services+15 moreCITY OF REFUGE: $1,000,548 · ReligionUrban Youth Impact Inc: $100,000 · ReligionCELEBRATE LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 · ReligionStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $50,000 · ReligionJunior Achievement of Georgia: $1,062,500 · International+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalNational Monuments Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,920,932Youth Development$3,223,500Food & Nutrition$3,217,275Human Services$2,794,200Religion$1,225,548International$1,065,500Arts & Culture$495,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $3,022,275 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,650,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,150,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $1,062,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $1,000,548 over 1y, 6.8% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $630,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $600,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $600,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $600,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $585,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNational Monuments Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $210,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INC: $180,338 over 1y, 12% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $180,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD CORRIDOR FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LET IT BE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCELEBRATE EDU: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetREACH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATH UNITED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetTEENS AT WORK INC: $92,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetThe Gifted Education Corporation: $85,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC DBA STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE: $75,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSPECIAL KIDS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCentral Texas Table of Grace Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCELEBRATE LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS CENTRAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANK AARON CHASING THE DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUntold Inc: $40,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $38,700 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $30,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YUNION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…The Imlay Foundation …The Coca-Cola Foundat…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Jewish Federation of …THDF II Inc DBA The H…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananPublix Super Markets …The Arthur M Blank Fa…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA51.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation

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 Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
34report 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.
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How do I get to Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chick-fil-A 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 317 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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