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East Lake Foundationinc

The east lake foundation partners with the village of east lake residents, drew charter school families, and key service providers to provide equitable resources and support for community members to thrive.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$882k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$6.2MHuman Services$3.4MEnvironment$700kRecreation & Sports$418kCommunity Improvement$108kArts & Culture$100k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREW CHARTER SCHOOL$882,188
EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA$474,533
ATLANTA LAND TRUST$400,000
THE SHELTERING ARMS$160,000
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$52,156
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$35,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $501k → 14%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $475k → 14%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $450k → 14%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $412k → 14%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $368k → 14%EAST LAKE FAMILY YMCA: $277k → 14%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 9 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$11M
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+3%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • DC
    DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +86%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • GP
    GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $108k · revenue -29%
  • PB
    PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $108k · revenue +37%
  • THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +3%

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.

1
Woodward Academy Inc

Woodward academy provides college preparatory education for students in pre-k through grade 12. woodward intentionally brings together students from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, creating a richer learning community…

Education
2
Leadership Atlanta Inc

It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…

3
Georgia Charter Education Foundation

For educational purposes. the school is comprised of respected leaders in the state of georgia that are commited to providing high quality educational options for the students and families of georgia. the foundation strived to provide a…

Education
4
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

The mission of the atlanta neighborhood charter school (ancs) is to use the principles of the coalition of essential schools to: build an empowered and inclusive community of students,parents, and educators; engage the whole…

Education
5
Westside Atlanta Charter School Inc

Westside atlanta charter school fosters a diverse, tight-knit community of lifelong learners, giving each child an excellent academic experience that builds curiosity, critical thinking, and character.

6
Friends School of Atlanta

The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…

7
Every Student Every Community Inc

Redefined atlanta engages communities, advocates for equity, and funds critical work to drive systemic level improvement in k-12 public education for students and families.

Education
8
The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education
9
Georgia Christian School Inc

To promote the education of children in pre-K through twelfth grade in a Christian atmosphere.

10
Georgia Charter Schools Inc

Operation of charter school and related support services.

11
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
12
International Charter School of Atlanta Inc

To operate under the charter with the state charter school commision of georgia to provide educational services to students from kingergarten to eight grade.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drew Charter School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $3,934,433 · EducationDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INCAtlanta Speech School Inc — $452,500 · EducationAtlanta Speech School IncGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $383,254 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc+2 more — $192,687 · EducationEDUCATIONAL HOLDINGS FOUNDATION INC — $1,240,346 · OtherEDUCATIONAL HOLDINGS FOUNDATI…THE SHELTERING ARMS INC — $933,763 · OtherTHE SHELTERING ARMS INCATLANTA LAND TRUST — $700,000 · OtherATLANTA LAND TRUSTYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) — $2,487,383 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS…Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc — $417,780 · Recreation & SportsGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $107,687 · Community ImprovementTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,962,874Other$2,874,109Human Services$2,487,383Recreation & Sports$417,780Community Improvement$107,687Arts & Culture$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $3,934,433 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) — $2,487,383 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL HOLDINGS FOUNDATION INC — $1,240,346 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC — $933,763 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc — $452,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc — $417,780 over 5y, 16% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $383,254 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $107,687 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC — $107,687 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetODYSSEY INC — $85,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budget
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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 East Lake Foundationinc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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