Skip to content
Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$89k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$276kHousing & Shelter$206kHealth$204kCivil Rights$26kYouth Development$19kPublic Benefit$15kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
$1,350
Median grant
3
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ProvisionBridge - Roots Community A$89,000
United Way of Greater Atlanta$10,676
The NYC LGBT Community Center$5,000
Up3 Atlanta$2,500
ProvisionBridge - Free Rent Atlanta$1,350
Planned Parenthood$1,200
NO KID HUNGRY$1,000
GCPF FOUNDATION FUND$1,000
Free Rent Foundation - Roots Commun$250
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 (FY18–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $1k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 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

IL
NY
OR
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Curran - Dorfman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$401k · 14 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$401k
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+64%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HT
    HOPE THRU SOAP INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $159k · revenue +217%
  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +161%
  • GI
    GLAAD INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $26k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • U2
    USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -81%
  • BI
    BECAUSE I SAID I WOULDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +263%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
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
2
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…

—
3
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
4
Advocates for Children Inc

Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…

—
5
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
6
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
7
Nami Georgia Inc

NAMI Georgia empowers affiliates to provide advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

—
8
Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability Inc

Empower, educate, and equip kinship caregivers with tools and resources to provide safe, stable homes and keep children out of foster care

Health
9
Georgia Care Connection Office Inc

The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia

—
10
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
11
Atlfamilymeal Inc

Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.

Food & Nutrition
12
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network

In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia; the most unlike its peers is Autism Nutrition Research Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
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

ProvisionBridge - Roots Community A: $89,000 · OtherProvisionBridge - Roots Community APLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST: $65,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTIndividual grant recipient: $46,307 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLAAD INC: $26,013 · OtherGLAAD INCUNITED WAY: $10,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,500 · Other+25 more: $49,601 · Other+25 moreHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $158,800 · Community ImprovementHOPE THRU SOAP INCUSHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthUSHER 2020 FOUNDAT…Cure Childhood Cancer Inc: $10,000 · HealthCure Childhood Can…MOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $8,198 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATIO…THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $1,402 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $10,676 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREA…PATRIOT PROJECT: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPATRIOT PROJECT+1 more: $3,156 · PhilanthropyALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBE SOMEONE INC BE SOMEONE INC: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 · Youth DevelopmentBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD: $10,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$296,421Community Improvement$158,800Health$124,600Philanthropy$123,832Housing & Shelter$41,000Youth Development$18,100Public Benefit$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $158,800 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetUSHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLAAD INC: $26,013 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBE SOMEONE INC BE SOMEONE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $10,676 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $8,198 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $3,156 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnsley Park Civic Association Inc: $1,070 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRIANGLE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Nutrition Research Center: $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc: $267 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $250 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…The Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Richard C Munroe …The Dorfman Foundatio…Bobbie Bailey Foundat…The Scott Hudgens Fam…The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainCommunity Foundation …United Way of Greater…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA21.9× affinity9 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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · The Dorfman Foundation Inc · Bobbie Bailey Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way 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 Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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 49 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Curran - Dorfman Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home