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Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$47MEducation$43MArts & Culture$26MEnvironment$17MAnimals$8.0MHuman Services$6.0MReligion$1.6MYouth Development$850kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,300,036
Median grant
2
States reached
$244M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$8,600,031
Atlanta Botanical Garden$5,000,044
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia$2,000,000
Greater Atlanta Christian School$1,500,000
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center$1,300,036
Whitefield Academy$1,000,000
Boys Home of Virginia$550,000
Lowndes-Valdosta Arts Commission$500,000
Young Harris College$500,000
Georgia Historical Society$500,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Westminster Canterbury Foundation: $500k → 9%Moving in the Spirit: $300k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$103M · 15 repeat orgs$46M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
32

Total granted

$103M
$40M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $38M · revenue +33%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +62%
  • AS
    Agnes Scott College
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7.0M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AF
    ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8.0M · revenue -27%
  • CH
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $7.4M
  • YO
    YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
5
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
8
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
9
Chesterton Academy of Atlanta Inc

The corporation will serve to establish and direct a classical high schoolgrounded in the catholic faith in western cobb county, georgia, usa.

Education
10
Amazement Square

The museum's mission is dedicated to motivating children and adults of all backgrounds and abilities toward greater creativity and understanding of themselves and the world through hands-on learning.

Arts & Culture
11
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
12
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gracepoint School 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDonor-Advised Fund Administ…Professional Trade Associat…Business Chambers and Touri…Union and Employer Benefit …Atlanta Community Civic Org…Black Community Advocacy & …Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%0%<5yr18%2%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr8%38%35–55yr9%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr18%1%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr8%27%35–55yr9%40%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
21%
5,691/27,698

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $38,200,145 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLAN…+2 more — $1,500,000 · HealthChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation — $7,400,051 · OtherChildren's Healthcare …Agnes Scott College — $7,000,000 · OtherAgnes Scott CollegeYMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta — $5,000,037 · OtherYMCA of Metropolitan A…HOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC — $2,000,000 · OtherHOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOP…THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC — $2,000,000 · OtherTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $1,500,000 · OtherWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $1,000,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN VIRGINIA — $1,000,000 · Other+8 more — $3,050,000 · Other+8 moreSpelman College — $12,000,007 · EducationSpelman CollegeThe Westminster Schools Inc — $4,000,001 · EducationThe Westminster School…PACE ACADEMY INC — $2,000,000 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $2,000,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOP…WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $1,750,000 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGEYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE — $1,500,000 · EducationGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $1,500,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $1,500,000 · EducationBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC — $1,500,000 · EducationValdosta State University Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 · Education+2 more — $1,000,000 · EducationROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $8,200,062 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF …VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,500,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICA…Fernbank Inc — $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank IncTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONT…THE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA OPERA …SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $3,870,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $15,000,084 · EnvironmentTHE ATLANTA …THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FO…ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $8,000,025 · AnimalsWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $500,000 · Philanthropy
Health$39,700,145Other$29,950,088Education$29,750,008Arts & Culture$23,870,062Environment$17,000,084Animals$8,000,025Human Services$800,000Philanthropy$500,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $38,200,145 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $15,000,084 over 2y, 13% of budgetSpelman College — $12,000,007 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $8,200,062 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $8,000,025 over 1y, 17% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $7,000,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $4,000,001 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,500,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetFernbank Inc — $2,500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $1,800,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE — $1,750,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE — $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $1,500,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetValdosta State University Foundation Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC — $750,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAURORA THEATRE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCANTERBURY COURT INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Theatrical Outfit Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLOWNDES-VALDOSTA ARTS COMMISSION I — $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCherokee County Historical Society — $300,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHISTORIC RURAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA INC — $150,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC — $120,000 over 1y, 20% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Power Foundat…J Bulow Campbell Foun…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Fraser-Parker Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Community Foundation …Charles Loridans Foun…Raymond James Charita…AEC TrustTr Walter Rich Et Al …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA38.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Charles Loridans Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · AEC Trust · Tr Walter Rich Et Al Mem Fd Uw

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 Lettie Pate Evans 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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