· Private foundation
Joseph B Whitehead Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+29 grants · $74M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Atlanta | $15,939,786 |
| Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta | $15,000,003 |
| Partners for HOME | $12,000,000 |
| Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta | $7,500,002 |
| United Way of Greater Atlanta | $5,000,000 |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank | $2,100,000 |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank | $2,000,030 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta | $2,000,000 |
| Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta | $1,500,000 |
| Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement | $1,000,000 |
| Hope Atlanta | $1,000,000 |
| The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta | $1,000,000 |
| Georgia Family Connection Partnership | $950,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Georgia | $850,000 |
| Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education | $675,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $28.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Joseph B Whitehead Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M 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
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +4%
- PFPARTNERS FOR HOME INC4× · 2020–2025 · $17M · revenue ×16 · 45% of their budget
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $10M · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $7.0M
- CHChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundationone grant, 2022 · $5.0M
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.
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.…
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.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.
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.
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…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Campus Community Partnership Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 132 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FAMILY CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Georgia ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillside Inc ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Rhodes Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Works Inc ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CHANGE 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: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · Fraser-Parker 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 Joseph B Whitehead 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.
- Year Up 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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