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Lacy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Benedict's Episcopal School | $10,000 |
| Pike Co Parks and Recreation | $7,500 |
| Skyland Trail | $5,000 |
| Schenck School Inc | $5,000 |
| The Center for Family Resources | $5,000 |
| St Benedict's Episcopal Church | $5,000 |
| Shepard Center Foundation | $5,000 |
| MUST Ministries | $5,000 |
| Literacy Council Highlands Inc | $3,000 |
| Lovett School The | $3,000 |
| Highlands Community Child Development Center | $2,500 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | $2,500 |
| Special Olympics Georgia | $2,500 |
| The Bascom A Center for the Visual Arts | $2,500 |
| Town of Highlands (Playground Fund) | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Lacy Foundation Inc’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.
45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CCCOCOS CUPBOARD INC5× · 2017–2021 · $92k · revenue +521%
- CACUMBERLAND ACADEMY OF GEORGIA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +69%
- TLTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- HCHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -38%
- SESPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF GEORGIAone grant, 2019 · $5k
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +104%
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
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.
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.…
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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To develop and administer a comprehensive primary health care system for the citizens of Forsyth County, Gwinnett County, Bartow County, Dawson County, and Cherokee County, Georgia, their surrounding communities and their citizens,…
To lease and own skilled care, intermediate care, and other healthcare related facilities; consistent with the policies previously adopted by the board of directors of community health systems, inc. (chsi). chsi is the section 509 (a)(3)…
The credit union is a cooperative organized to provide members thrift savings and borrowings.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peggy Crosby Community Service Center Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 64 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 COCOS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND ACADEMY OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Northside Athletes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center for Family Resources ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Hirsch Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS ADVOCACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Releash Atlanta 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Garner Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Lacy Foundation 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.
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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