· Private foundation
Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GCPF FOUNDATION FUND | $1,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $1,000 |
| Free Rent Foundation - Roots Commun | $250 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HTHOPE THRU SOAP INC5× · 2018–2023 · $159k · revenue +217%
- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INC3× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +161%
- GIGLAAD INC2× · 2017–2018 · $26k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- U2USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -81%
- BIBECAUSE I SAID I WOULDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +263%
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.…
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…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Empower, educate, and equip kinship caregivers with tools and resources to provide safe, stable homes and keep children out of foster care
The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia
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.
Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 26 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HOPE THRU SOAP INC ↗
- Who funds USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds BE SOMEONE INC BE SOMEONE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Ansley Park Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds Nicholas House Inc ↗
- Who funds Autism Nutrition Research Center ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
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.
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
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 Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation 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.
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.