How much did DELTA AIR LINES FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of DELTA AIR LINES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

education buildingcook parkcuttinghonor berniebernie marcusleadershipatlanta

2021

buildingcook parkcuttinghonor berniebernie marcusleadershipatlanta

2022

northwestsidebuildingcook parkcuttingleadershipatlanta

2023

memorywestsidechildren'smarcusgrady healthglobal

2024

flightjunior achievementchildren'squalifying educationglobal

2025

smartachievement discoverydiscovery claytonjunior achievementmemoryartsflight

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$50k–250k6 grants · $800k
$250k+22 grants · $18M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

DELTA EMPLOYEE MATCHING GIFTS TO COLLEGESUNIVERSITIES VIA BONTERRA$3,811,670
DELTA AIR TRANSPORT HERITAGE MUSEUM INC$2,000,000
GLOBAL CITIZEN$1,125,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000,000
MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
OPERATION HOPE$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA CLAYTON CO$1,000,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$500,000
NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION$500,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO ATLANTA - CLAYTON COUNTY$400,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$250,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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 11% of DELTA AIR LINES 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. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DELTA AIR LINES FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$73M · 36 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$73M

$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+67%

Still filing today

47%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +82%
DA
DELTA AIR TRANSPORT HERITAGE MUSEUM INC
2× · 2024–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +196% · 45% of their budget
WF
WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND
3× · 2021–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +45%

Funded once

SN
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
one grant, 2020 · $2.2M
MG
MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $1.3M · revenue +62% · 34% of their budget
CM
CYBERGRANTS - MATCHING GRANTS
one grant, 2020 · $1.1M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University System of Georgia

See schedule o for complete mission description.the university system of georgia foundation's primary goal is to support the state of georgia university system and its 26 colleges and universities to ensure access to academic excellence…

Education

Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education

Georgia Southern University Foundation

The georgia southern university foundation was established in 1963 to receive, manage, and administer private gifts in support of the georgia southern university mission and priorities. the foundation primarily accomplishes this mission by…

Education

Georgia State University Foundation Inc

Support the mission and best interests of georgia state university

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Georgia College & State University

To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for the scientific, educational and charitable purposes for the advancement of georgia college & state university. private gifts from alumni, friends,…

Education

University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real property for the benefit of the…

Education

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

University of Mississippi Foundation

The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…

Education

University of South Carolina Educational

To support the university of south carolina in its academic, research and charitable endeavors by promoting a culture of philanthropy, managing and stewarding donor gifts, and providing financial resources to support students and faculty…

Education

Georgia State University Athletic

To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wellspring Living Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

16%

9,180/58,275

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.

06the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

22/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$52,530,861Education$17,500,000Arts & Culture$5,666,667Human Services$3,300,000Philanthropy$2,266,667International$1,200,000Food & Nutrition$800,000

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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · THDF II Inc DBA · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation DELTA AIR LINES 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~260 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201238224 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 260 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Delta Air Lines Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Delta Air Lines Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DELTA AIR LINES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Delta Air Lines Foundation?

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DELTA AIR LINES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Delta Air Lines Foundation?

More from the funding graph