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Connolly Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$1.6MHealth$414kArts & Culture$383kCrime & Legal$288kReligion$288kEmployment$276kHuman Services$268kRecreation & Sports$231kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $743k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$192,857
THE ATLANTA OPERA INC$100,000
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$100,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
TRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING TRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING AN$50,000
GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
YEAR UP INC$50,000
CITY OF REFUGE INC$50,000
GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC$50,000
ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR$25,000
SOCCER IN THE STREETS INC$25,000
COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC$25,000
NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC$25,000
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
ATLANTA URBAN SQUASH INC$15,000
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 (FY21–25, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY IN: $100k → 12%DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC: $10k → 13%SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC: $10k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $25k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $25k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $25k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $25k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $20k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR: $1k → 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
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CO
MO
KY
VA
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 36 repeat orgs$391k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

$4.1M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-6%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $796k · revenue +25%
  • Washington and Lee University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $525k · revenue +75%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • JP
    Jonathan Project Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TK
    The Kindezi School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +27%

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
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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3
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
4
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
5
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
6
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…

Philanthropy
8
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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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
Acfb Support Organization Inc

Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
11
Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
12
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Jonathan Project 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Addiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesSenior Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and Pantries
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 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr9%35%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr9%49%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 28% 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/67
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,234

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
32/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $796,429 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIO…Washington and Lee University — $525,000 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityYEAR UP INC — $225,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCAtlanta Youth Academies Inc — $60,000 · Education+4 more — $35,000 · EducationCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $90,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA IN…CRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC — $85,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT…Jonathan Project Inc — $50,000 · OtherANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $50,000 · OtherBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · OtherTRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING TRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING AN — $50,000 · OtherATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $121,000 · OtherATLANTA UNION MISSION COR…SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC — $100,000 · OtherSHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION…EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 · OtherEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINCATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $75,000 · OtherATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BA…ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $40,000 · Other+29 more — $179,000 · Other+29 moreSoccer In the Streets Inc — $120,000 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In …CAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $115,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN …ATLANTA URBAN SQUASH INC D/B/A A SQUASH — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsATLANTA UR…WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAM J …NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSIDE …Agape Community Center — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $20,700 · Recreation & SportsTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLAN…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $180,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA H…+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $250,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA J…ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTA P…GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 · HealthGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthNO LONGER BOUND INC — $60,000 · Health+3 more — $16,000 · HealthCITY OF REFUGE — $250,000 · ReligionKIDZ2LEADERS INC — $27,500 · ReligionBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $26,500 · Religion+1 more — $4,000 · Religion
Education$1,641,429Other$990,000Recreation & Sports$405,700Arts & Culture$382,500Crime & Legal$380,000Health$341,000Religion$308,000

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 ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $796,429 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $525,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $180,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $121,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA URBAN SQUASH INC D/B/A A SQUASH — $60,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Youth Academies Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDZ2LEADERS INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $26,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAgape Community Center — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING AND LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetELEVATE ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget247 GATEWAY LLC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPF SUPPORT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHEROKEE ART ENDOWMENT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTw Marian W Ottley At…The Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Sartain Lanier Fa…J Bulow Campbell Foun…Fraser-Parker Foundat…Frances Wood Wilson F…Jewish Federation of …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA41.5× affinity22 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 · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

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 Connolly Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Connolly Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Connolly Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 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.

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