· Public charity
City of Refuge
CITY OF REFUGE offers life saving resources and life building tools to those in atlanta who are living on the margin.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $2,574,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,389,661 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $815,016 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF CHERITH INC | $1,434,165 |
| MEN OPPOSING SEX TRAFFICKING INC | $883,880 |
| CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC | $123,300 |
| CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH HILL | $80,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH INC | $28,300 |
| CITY OF HOPE ATHENS | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HOHouse of Cherith Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +82% · 63% of their budget
- COCITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $376k · revenue +180%
- COCITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC4× · 2018–2022 · $68k · revenue +448%
Funded once
- TTThrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Incone grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -35%
- SGStreet Grace Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +419%
- COCITY OF REFUGE NW GEORGIA INCone grant, 2019 · $31k · 97% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Restoring our youth by turning trauma into triumph for female suvivors of child sex trafficking in Georgia.
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens
Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…
Rescue Hill helps survivors of human trafficking with recovery services and resources in a safe environment. Rescue Hill offers a stabilization home for survivors and their small children as well as advocacy services.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Supporting the mission, vision and work of Cuidad Refug
501 (c)(3) public charity
To rescue our brothers and sisters off the streets
The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Refuge Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Straight Street Revolution Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds House of Cherith Inc ↗
- Who funds Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE - SOUTH HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Second Life Tennessee INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC ↗
- Who funds Thrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds City of Refuge Hopewell Inc ↗
- Who funds Street Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE NW GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT STREET REVOLUTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUNTER HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: City of Refuge Communities Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 City of Refuge 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.
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.