· Private foundation
D Gaines Lanier Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of D GAINES LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $633k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE OF CARE | $208,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY | $125,000 |
| EMAC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARANNOOK INC | $90,000 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH CO SERVE | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE PRESIDENT'S THEATRE | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| SPRINGWOOD SCHOOL | $13,085 |
| EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION EAST ALABAMA | $12,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM DAVIES SHELTER INC | $10,000 |
| ESPERANZA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHAMBERS CO DRUG COURT | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST GA HUNGER MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
- MIMARANNOOK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $782k · revenue +333% · 31% of their budget
- PUPOINT UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +14%
- GIGLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- EFEAMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $125k
- LCLANETT CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $100k
- EAEAST ALABAMA ARTSone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
Education services and classroom intruction in theology to include all branches of higher education.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
Support and sponsor those experiencing hopelessness and homelessness, through residential rehabilitation, recovery and treatment programs, Christian-based spiritual mentopring and counseling, life skills training and resources infused with…
Provide housing and classes for student in an atmospher that fosters religious and spiritual growth.
Chattahoochee christian school is committed to be a school that partners with families to create a foundation of christian faith and character upon which to build academic excellence.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
To provide a stable christian home for girls from crisis backgrounds.
Ministry provides a spiritual healing ministry for troubled and delinquent children, and quality academic education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Service Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 53 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 MARANNOOK INC ↗
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EAGLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDEEMING GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HOME ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds HADDIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESIDENT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGPROOF RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs Northwest Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baby Steps ↗
- Who funds THE PATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Lanier Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Scott Foundation Inc · Floyd Healthcare Management Inc · Davison Bruce Foundation · The Charter Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Wehadkee Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Rome Inc · United Way of Rome & Floyd County Inc Dba United Way of Floyd Polk & Chattoog
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 D Gaines Lanier 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.
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