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Cousins Properties Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cousins Properties Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Community Improvement$847kEducation$742kFood & Nutrition$301kArts & Culture$241kPhilanthropy$225kHealth$188kReligion$132kHuman Services$128kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,082
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION - FORWARD ATLANTA$50,000
CF FOUNDATION - TOM & ANN COUSINS FUND$35,000
CF FOUNDATION - TOM & ANN COUSINS FUND$30,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL$30,000
CITY OF REFUGE$28,806
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$20,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$20,000
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION$20,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - OPPORTUNITY AUSTIN 50 - CENTRAL TEXAS QUALIT$20,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$10,000
GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$10,000
TIGER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$8,082
BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA$6,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - OPPORTUNITY AUSTIN 50 - CENTRAL TEXAS QUALITY$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hospice Austin: $1k → 10%Behind Every Door Ministries Inc: $25k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $20k → 16%Community Partners of Dallas: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%TAMPA BAY ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%Chris180: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%Chris180: $4k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $14k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $13k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $10k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $10k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $10k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $10k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $10k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $8k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $8k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $4k → 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

MO
AZ
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 35 repeat orgs$998k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
52

Total granted

$2.2M
$817k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • EL
    EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $591k · revenue +15%
  • GA
    GREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +70%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN UW
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CF
    CMS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • CO
    CITY OF TAMPA (ONE TAMPA)
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

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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
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
3
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
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 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
6
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
7
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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8
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance

Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.

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9
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc. 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

73 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. 73 of the 98 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
51/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $591,000 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINCGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION …UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyC F FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $44,643 · PhilanthropyMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $150,000 · OtherMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCOpportunity Austin: $120,000 · OtherOpportunity AustinNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $71,000 · OtherCF FOUNDATION - TOM & ANN COUSINS FUND: $65,000 · OtherChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation Inc: $60,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INC: $55,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN UW: $50,000 · OtherCITY OF TAMPA (ONE TAMPA): $50,000 · OtherGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION - FORWARD ATLANTA: $50,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $65,000 · OtherTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $55,000 · OtherATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · Other+45 more: $506,727 · Other+45 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $33,333 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $12,000 · Arts & CultureWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $66,666 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC: $14,586 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $14,286 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesTAMPA BAY ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $9,571 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $52,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Tampa Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionFEED THE FRONT LINE: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCMS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $22,000 · EducationMIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,750 · EducationCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,200 · EducationCITY OF REFUGE: $81,571 · ReligionMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $46,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,015,643Other$1,361,727Arts & Culture$245,333Human Services$197,609Food & Nutrition$151,500Education$144,950Religion$127,571

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 budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $591,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $81,571 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $71,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $66,666 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INC: $55,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCMS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Community Center: $39,643 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetC F FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $33,333 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Tampa Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $22,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $19,643 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ATLANTA PROGRESS INC: $16,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUALITY GROWTH INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $14,586 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $14,286 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTigerMountain Foundation Inc: $13,990 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc: $10,714 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE FRONT LINE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 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…THDF II Inc DBA The H…The Coca-Cola Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Community Foundat…The Kelin FoundationSouthern Company Char…The Winston-Salem Fou…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …Publix Super Markets …
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Kelin Foundation · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities 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 Cousins Properties Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cousins Properties Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report 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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Find your warmest path to Cousins Properties 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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home