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General Atlantic Foundation

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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$911k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$15MEducation$4.9MInternational$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCivil Rights$803kHealth$694kArts & Culture$649kRecreation & Sports$388kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $814k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$910,745
ECHOING GREEN INC$750,000
ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC$500,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$250,000
THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION$250,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES CHINA RELATION$200,000
THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$143,566
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC$125,000
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC$100,000
PRIME COALITION INC$100,000
TARJIMLY$100,000
TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC$100,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
MYRIAD USA INC$100,000
SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC$83,333
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $901k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%TARJIMLY: $100k → 8%AFYA FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%FATHERS DAY MOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC: $10k → 13%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%ORKESTAI FARM INC: $250k → 6%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $10k → 14%PRIME COALITION INC: $100k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $33k → 17%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $25k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $50k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $13k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
KS
AR
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 55% of General Atlantic Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

General Atlantic Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 35 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
54

Total granted

$9.0M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+10%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TA
    THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $775k · revenue +13%
  • TT
    THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $288k · revenue +127%
  • SA
    SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +32%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -4%
  • OF
    ORKESTAI FARM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -72% · 55% of their budget
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Ie New York College

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Education
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 138 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/122
Grantees still filing
71/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $13,176,851 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC+9 more: $726,316 · PhilanthropyECHOING GREEN INC: $2,315,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,150,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNI…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $265,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $212,500 · Education+16 more: $387,938 · Education+16 moreENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC): $695,000 · InternationalENDEAVOR GL…NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $550,000 · InternationalNATIONAL CO…FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $500,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …International Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 · InternationalInternation…CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $150,000 · InternationalBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc: $100,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PERES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE INC: $100,000 · International+9 more: $275,000 · International+9 moreTHE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $994,946 · OtherTHE UK ONLINE…SUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY: $185,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH…PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $150,000 · OtherThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $110,000 · OtherSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $249,999 · OtherSQUASH AND ED…+60 more: $1,574,975 · Other+60 moreTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $287,600 · Human ServicesORKESTAI FARM INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTarjimly Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $33,000 · Human Services+4 more: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $775,000 · Civil RightsGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $50,000 · Civil RightsLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $63,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,100 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$13,903,167Education$4,580,938International$2,820,000Other$3,264,920Human Services$900,600Civil Rights$860,000Arts & Culture$491,600

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $13,176,851 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $2,315,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $775,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC): $695,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $550,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $287,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $265,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORKESTAI FARM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $249,999 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $212,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTarjimly Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PERES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $93,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETWISE PARTNERS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $73,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $63,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEPIC FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Forward Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Warburg Pincus Fo…The Sidley Austin Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationThe Blackstone Charit…Viking Global Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Express Foun…Pwc Foundation Inc
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY39.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc

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 General Atlantic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from General Atlantic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Supportive Schools Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to General Atlantic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to General Atlantic Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 138 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-PF 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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