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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

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

+4%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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…

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6
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
7
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
8
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…

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9
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives…

Education
10
Atlanta Youth Academies Inc

Atlanta youth academies, inc. exists to advance the kingdom of god by providing an excellent, christ-centered education in low income, urban communities.

Education
11
Georgia Christian School Inc

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

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12
The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

In a world becoming exponentially more complex, girls will face challenges in college and beyond that will require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and confidence to be solved. at atlanta girls' school (ags), we teach girls to be…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drew Charter School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Educational Holdings Foundation 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $107,687 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $107,687 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetODYSSEY INC: $85,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Tull Charitable Found…United Way of Greater…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization East Lake Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Lake Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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