Georgia · Private foundation
Delta Air Lines Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,811,670
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Delta Air Lines Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $20M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $19M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $12M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $11M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $12M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Poverty Project Inc | $11,025,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $9,600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $6,000,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum Inc | $5,000,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Westside Future Fund Inc | $3,300,000 | 3 | 25% |
| The New Common School Foundation | $3,000,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $2,222,222 | 1 | 0% |
| The Grady Health Foundation Inc | $2,050,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Operation Hope Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Spelman College | $2,000,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Delta Air Lines Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Delta Air Lines Foundation
- How much does Delta Air Lines Foundation give?
- Delta Air Lines Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $20,161,670 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Delta Air Lines Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), International (14%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Delta Air Lines Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Global Poverty Project Inc ($11M), The University of Georgia Foundation ($9.6M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($6.0M).
- Does Delta Air Lines Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Delta Air Lines Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Delta Air Lines Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.
- Where is Delta Air Lines Foundation based?
- Delta Air Lines Foundation is based in GA.
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