· Private foundation
J Bulow Campbell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+39 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC | $4,500,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,253,104 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $2,000,000 |
| WESLEYAN SCHOOL | $2,000,000 |
| YMCA OF GEORGIA'S PIEDMONT INC | $1,800,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER | $1,500,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE INC | $1,500,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $1,500,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA | $1,250,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC | $1,000,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $1,000,000 |
| HERMAN J RUSSELL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $1,000,000 |
| MT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $775,000 |
| GRACEPOINT SCHOOL | $750,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $13.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +21% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M 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
- TGTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +237%
- WSWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC2× · 2021–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -77%
- WAWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3.0M · revenue +61%
- YOYMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTAone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
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.
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…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
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.
Provide exemplary individualized/engaging education by incorporating school/community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum within a data-driven and student-centered instructional model.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
The corporation will serve to establish and direct a classical high schoolgrounded in the catholic faith in western cobb county, georgia, usa.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Operation of charter school and related support services.
Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation 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 35 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
184 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. 184 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COBB CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Georgia's Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds The Howard School Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Youth Academies Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE JACOB'S LADDER GROUP ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
- Who funds CORNERS OUTREACH LLC ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Joseph B Whitehead Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc
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 J Bulow Campbell Foundation 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.
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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