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Georgia Tech Foundation Inc

It is the mission of the georgia tech foundation, inc., to: 1.

$168M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$117M
Largest
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 2025.

Education$898MHousing & Shelter$31MScience & Tech$924k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
  • $250k+5 grants · $167M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$116,593,824
GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC$39,297,303
GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$7,065,738
GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$3,330,483
EMORY UNIVERSITY$888,959
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$100,000
GEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC$85,000
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$50,000
ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY$47,393
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY$24,014
FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY$22,439
SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY$17,500
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY$14,450
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDAITION REAL ESTATE HOLDING CORPORATION$14,030
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.7M → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $889k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $100k → 9%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.7M → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $483k → 14%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.6M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.4M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.4M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.3M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.3M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $3.0M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.8M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $116.6M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $108.1M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $97.2M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $84.5M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $81.9M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $77.9M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $75.7M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $74.9M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $71.0M → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $39.3M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $13.5M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $7.1M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $6.1M → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $4.7M → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $1.2M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $1.1M → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $861k → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $847k → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $777k → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $773k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $754k → 13%GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $322k → 13%GEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC: $292k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $265k → 13%GEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC: $258k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $228k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $208k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $186k → 13%GEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC: $130k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $25.3M → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $3.2M → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $864k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $639k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $537k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $131k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $130k → 13%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$930M · 9 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$930M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

89%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47M · revenue +500% · 44% of their budget
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $31M · revenue +179%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30M · revenue +14% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2025 · $100k
  • AS
    Albany State University
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $47k · revenue 0%
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
Georgia Tech Research Corporation

The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.

Health
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The georgia tech applied research corporation (gtarc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance and economic development.

Health
4
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
5
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc

It is the mission of the georgia tech foundation, inc., to: 1. promote the cause of higher education in the state of georgia; 2. receive and manage financial donations received by the foundation for support and enhancement of the georgia…

Education
6
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

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…

Education
7
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
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
10
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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11
Augusta University Research Institute Inc

Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Real Estate Holding Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Tuskegee University. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $787,680,906 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $30,862,536 · OtherGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $30,278,199 · Other+6 more: $230,366 · OtherGEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $47,011,675 · EducationGEORGIA T…GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $31,371,616 · EducationGEORGIA T…+6 more: $2,478,193 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,121 · Community Improvement
Other$849,052,007Education$80,861,484Community Improvement$7,121

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 budgetGEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC: $47,011,675 over 9y, 44% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $31,371,616 over 9y, 10% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION: $30,862,536 over 7y, 100% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $30,278,199 over 9y, 56% of budgetEmory University: $1,372,238 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC: $923,558 over 7y, 100% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $101,374 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $47,393 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $24,014 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $9,616 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,121 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FACILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION FUNDING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION REAL ESTATE HOLDING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2025
’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
    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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