Georgia · Private foundation
Foundation for a Better World Inc
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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $247M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Foundation for a Better World Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $3.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $3.2M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $2.4M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $6.2M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $4.3M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $6.9M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $6.4M | 34% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $696k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $11,406,000 | 6 | 12% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $5,719,524 | 7 | 1% |
| Cooperative for Education | $1,975,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Growth Through Learning Inc | $1,087,500 | 7 | 88% |
| Asopuente International Inc | $1,073,800 | 8 | 99% |
| Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc | $890,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iniciativa Guatemala | $643,000 | 8 | 39% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for a Better World Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Luis Von Ahn Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Kendeda Fund · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Foundation for a Better World Inc
- How much does Foundation for a Better World Inc give?
- Foundation for a Better World Inc reported 30 grants totaling $3,189,580 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Foundation for a Better World Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (60%), International (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Foundation for a Better World Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($11M), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($5.7M), Cooperative for Education ($2.0M).
- Does Foundation for a Better World Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foundation for a Better World Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for a Better World Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Imlay Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Foundation for a Better World Inc based?
- Foundation for a Better World Inc is based in GA.
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