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Joseph B Whitehead Foundation at a glance

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Joseph B Whitehead Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$271MHealth$44MEducation$36MHuman Services$34MHousing & Shelter$31MYouth Development$28MFood & Nutrition$9.8MReligion$6.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+29 grants · $74M
$450,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$717M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Hope Atlanta$1,000,000
Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Soaring Heights Communities: $800k → 11%Ser Familia: $3.0M → 8%Goshen Valley Foundation: $200k → 8%Automotive Training Center: $400k → 13%The Center for Children & Young Adults: $100k → 8%The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta: $1.0M → 13%Open Doors: $400k → 14%Open Doors Solutions Inc: $400k → 14%Helping Mamas: $100k → 9%Open Doors: $400k → 14%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $500k → 8%Refugee Women's Network: $150k → 14%New American Pathways: $400k → 14%Georgia Welcome Co-Op: $300k → 14%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $225k → 8%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential: $225k → 8%CaringWorks: $350k → 14%Ventures ATL: $100k → 13%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children: $200k → 14%CHRIS 180: $500k → 14%Georgia Center for Child Advocacy: $400k → 14%Mary Hall Freedom House Inc: $700k → 13%FaithBridge Foster Care: $100k → 13%Kate's Club Inc: $300k → 14%North Fulton Community Charities: $400k → 13%Latin American Association: $600k → 13%Project Community Connections Inc: $750k → 13%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential: $150k → 13%Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential: $150k → 13%Atlanta Union Mission Corporation: $4.0M → 13%Crossroads Community Ministries: $200k → 13%Caring For Others Inc: $100k → 13%Georgia Works: $1.5M → 13%Communities in Schools of Atlanta: $1.0M → 13%Multi-Agency Alliance for Children: $400k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $350k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $350k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children Inc: $350k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $250k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $250k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $250k → 13%Communities in Schools of Atlanta: $230k → 13%Communities in Schools of Atlanta: $230k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $2.0M → 13%Westside Future Fund: $2.0M → 13%Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $200k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $500k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $500k → 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.
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 11% of Joseph B Whitehead Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Joseph B Whitehead Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251M · 44 repeat orgs$79M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
73

Total granted

$251M
$74M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

91%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +4%
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR HOME INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $17M · revenue ×16 · 45% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AR
    ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10M · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2024 · $7.0M
  • CH
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
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.

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The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
2
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

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.

Education
3
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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4
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
5
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
6
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

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.

Employment
7
Breakthrough Atlanta

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…

Education
8
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
9
Georgia Agape Inc

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…

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10
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
11
Families First Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.
05the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 132 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/123
Grantees still filing
58/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $153,833,622 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $116,356,045 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC+2 more: $600,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $14,000,055 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $10,000,000 · HealthMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 · HealthThe Foundation for Rhodes Homes Inc: $2,000,000 · HealthHillside Inc: $2,000,000 · HealthAtlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $1,300,000 · Health+10 more: $3,300,000 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,000,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION A…Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation: $5,000,032 · OtherChildren's Heal…YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta: $5,000,000 · OtherYMCA of Metropo…Individual grant recipient: $2,700,000 · OtherKIPP Metro Atlanta: $2,500,000 · OtherATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $6,100,031 · OtherATLANTA COMMUNI…OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 · OtherGEORGIA FAMILY CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,470,000 · OtherGEORGIA FAMILY …CAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $4,000,000 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES…Wellspring Living Inc: $4,200,000 · OtherWellspring Livi…+38 more: $21,100,000 · Other+38 moreWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $5,000,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $4,000,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA: $3,000,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $2,250,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $1,800,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $1,660,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works Inc: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $1,200,000 · Human Services+25 more: $8,917,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $22,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $2,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,500,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $1,000,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $1,729,000 · Youth DevelopmentGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc: $5,300,000 · EducationGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $3,975,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $3,950,000 · EducationPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,600,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,450,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN CHANGE INC: $1,250,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $1,250,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · EducationThe Kindezi School Inc: $1,000,000 · Education+7 more: $2,850,000 · EducationPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $17,000,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $1,500,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$270,789,667Health$36,600,055Other$66,070,063Human Services$30,577,000Youth Development$28,479,000Education$27,825,000Housing & Shelter$23,500,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $153,833,622 over 6y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $116,356,045 over 6y, 24% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $22,000,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $17,000,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $14,000,055 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $10,000,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $6,100,031 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGIA FAMILY CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,470,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc: $5,300,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $5,000,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $4,200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $4,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $4,000,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $3,975,000 over 6y, 51% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $3,950,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $3,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,600,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $2,250,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $2,250,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetThe Foundation for Rhodes Homes Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 30% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHillside Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $1,800,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $1,660,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc: $1,500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,500,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons Inc: $1,300,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $1,250,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHANGE INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $1,200,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc: $1,000,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $929,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $800,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetSOARING HEIGHTS COMMUNITIES INC: $800,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $800,000 over 2y, 5.7% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tull Charitable Found…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainJ Bulow Campbell Foun…Tw Marian W Ottley At…James M Cox Foundatio…Fraser-Parker Foundat…
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA101.2× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Joseph B Whitehead Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph B Whitehead 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 132 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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