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Fred & Catalina Aranas Family Foundinc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH | $15,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| SCHWOB SCHOOL OF MUSIC - CSU | $5,000 |
| MERCYMED | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS RIVER CENTER | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL-SCIENCE ATL | $1,000 |
| VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| GIVING KITCHEN | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +74%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +54%
- FIFernbank Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SCSCOTTDALE CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
- SOSHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…
To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds International Friendship Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA CHOICES FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · The Patton Foundation Inc · Pat and Jack Wilensky Family Foundation · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · The Ashok and Mary Kumar Foundatio Inc · The Shelby and Wanda Amos 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 Fred & Catalina Aranas Family Foundinc 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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