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Couchman & Noble Foundation Inc at a glance

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Couchman & Noble 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.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$184kCommunity Improvement$78kHousing & Shelter$70kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$14kHuman Services$12kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS NINOS PRIMERO$30,000
SANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE$10,000
HEALTHY YOUTH USA$5,200
VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS$5,000
SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY$5,000
CITY SPRINGS THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
DJOLI KELEN INC$5,000
SANDY SPRINGS FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST$2,000
DREAMZ ALWAYS COME TRUE$1,057
ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION$1,036
GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$609
SANDY SPRINGS CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO$600
NORTH SPRINGS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$500
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 (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $1k → 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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 20 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
22

Total granted

$444k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+42%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LN
    LOS NIOS PRIMERO INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +463%
  • LP
    LEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +12%
  • SS
    SANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • TD
    TAPESTRY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue ×18
  • YL
    YOUTH LEADERSHIP SANDY SPRINGS
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
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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2
South Fulton Institute Inc

South Fulton Arts is a regional catalyst for the advancement of the arts, education, and environment that enriches lives and communities.

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3
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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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
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
6
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
7
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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8
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…

Environment
9
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
10
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
11
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
12
Endeavor Atlanta Inc

Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sandy Springs Education Force Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 50 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $61,313 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INCRIDGEVIEW CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $22,982 · OtherRIDGEVIEW CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLFULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $22,565 · OtherFULTON COUNTY SCHOOLSTHE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC: $17,200 · OtherTHE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INCTAPESTRY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $6,325 · Other+28 more: $53,451 · Other+28 moreLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC: $97,750 · Youth DevelopmentLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC: $64,800 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP PERIMETER…Philanthropy Southeast Inc: $18,655 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southea…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $7,155 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDA…+2 more: $2,536 · PhilanthropySANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC: $61,450 · EducationSANDY SPRINGS E…Georgia State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationGeorgia State U…+1 more: $104 · EducationCity Springs Theatre: $26,000 · Arts & CultureVOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureART SANDY SPRINGS INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $606 · Environment
Other$183,836Youth Development$98,750Philanthropy$93,146Education$71,554Arts & Culture$37,250Food & Nutrition$15,000Environment$11,606

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC: $97,750 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC: $64,800 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetSANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC: $61,450 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $61,313 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCity Springs Theatre: $26,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $18,655 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC: $17,200 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $7,155 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAPESTRY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $6,325 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Springs Arts Foundation Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $606 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…United Way of Greater…The Sandy Springs Soc…The Zeist Foundation …Epstein Family Founda…Northside Hospital IncAtl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Scott Hudgens Fam…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …Jewish Federation of …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA28.7× affinity13 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sandy Springs Society Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Epstein Family Foundation · Northside Hospital Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

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 Couchman & Noble Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Couchman & Noble Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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