How much did COUSINS PROPERTIES FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of COUSINS PROPERTIES 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

2018

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2019

metro atlanta

2020

meals wheelscharlottefood banktampaaustinmetro atlantagreater

2021

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2022

austin

2023

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

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $38k
$10k–50k9 grants · $204k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

GREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION - FORWARD ATLANTA$50,000
CF FOUNDATION - TOM & ANN COUSINS FUND$35,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL$30,000
CF FOUNDATION - TOM & ANN COUSINS FUND$30,000
CITY OF REFUGE$28,806
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION$20,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - OPPORTUNITY AUSTIN 50 - CENTRAL TEXAS QUALIT$20,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$20,000
GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$10,000
TIGER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$8,082
BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA$6,000
QUALITY GROWTH INSTITUTE$5,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - OPPORTUNITY AUSTIN 50 - CENTRAL TEXAS QUALITY$5,000
CHASTAIN HORSE PARK THERAPEAUTIC PROGRAM$5,000

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 (FY17–23, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 35 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$838k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+46%

Still filing today

57%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

EL
East Lake Foundation Inc
5× · 2017–2024 · $591k · revenue +15%
CO
City of Refuge Inc
4× · 2020–2024 · $82k · revenue +55%
NT
North Texas Food Bank
2× · 2020–2022 · $71k · revenue +49%

Funded once

CF
CMS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -52%
VO
VALLEY OF THE SUN UW
one grant, 2020 · $50k
AC
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANKgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +78%

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.

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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Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

Upgrade & advance the atlanta metro area in population, commerce & finance; effect civic & social improvements; better quality of life in the community; & promote integrity in business.

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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

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

Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education

Chattanooga Chamber Foundation

To champion our member businesses and promote regional economic growth.

Philanthropy

Greater Chattanooga Area

To champion our member businesses and promote regional economic development.

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Atlanta Neighborhood Development

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter

Charlotte Regional Business Alliance

Advance the charlotte region to create opportunity, economic growth, and prosperity for all.

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Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta

Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.

Community Improvement

Atlfamilymeal Inc

To support hospitality workers to enhance their quality of life, and the organization achieves this by providing delivered chef-prepared meals to hospitality workers and their families experiencing food insecurity in the metro-atlanta area.

Food & Nutrition

Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners' (cccp) aspiration is for charlotte's center city to be the most thriving, inclusive, memorable, sustainable, resilient, and beloved place that is a leading force for a healthy regional economy and quality of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westminster College. 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.

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 field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/56

the rest of the field

16%

9,180/58,245

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

55 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)

54/55

Grantees still filing

41/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,608,503Philanthropy$1,015,643Food & Nutrition$149,500Human Services$145,166Education$143,950Religion$81,571Community Improvement$70,000

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA32.5× affinity14 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 · THDF II Inc DBA · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · The Kelin Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation 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 organisation COUSINS PROPERTIES 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

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: East Lake Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 582204306 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 East Lake Foundation Inc, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% 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 Cousins Properties Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cousins Properties 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.

COUSINS PROPERTIES 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

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cousins Properties Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

COUSINS PROPERTIES 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

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cousins Properties Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph