· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc
The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 435 grants below total $50,731,559 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $54,708,262 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,976,703 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k101 grants · $689k
- $10k–50k213 grants · $4.4M
- $50k–250k83 grants · $9.0M
- $250k+38 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federations of North America | $4,684,160 |
| The IDI Foundation Inc | $3,600,000 |
| Jewish Family & Career Services | $3,497,983 |
| Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta | $2,973,113 |
| Coming Together For A Cure | $2,275,225 |
| Boulder Crest Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| Jewish Home Life Communities Inc | $1,978,753 |
| The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School | $1,274,127 |
| Tikvah Fund | $1,200,000 |
| Atlanta Jewish Academy | $1,148,052 |
| Epstein School Inc | $1,070,821 |
| American Red Cross | $1,012,400 |
| Hillels of Georgia | $701,679 |
| Congregation Shearith Israel | $628,333 |
| Torah Day School of Atlanta | $616,081 |
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 (FY17–25, $47.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
486 repeat relationships — 289 still active in FY2025, 197 since wound down; 108 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +156%
- MJMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +54%
- JHJewish Home Life Communities Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10.0M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MSMORGAN STANLEY & CO LLCone grant, 2019 · $428k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WGH WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL NAHARIYA C/O THE LAPIN GROUPone grant, 2024 · $251k · revenue -45%
- 3P371 PRODUCTIONS LLCone grant, 2017 · $177k
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.
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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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
694 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. 694 of the 899 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 IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMING TOGETHER FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AHAVATH ACHIM CONG ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPSTEIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBI HARRY H EPSTEIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds TEMIMA THE RICHARD AND JEAN KATZ HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Selig 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% 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.