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Livingston 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA OPERA | $100,000 |
| CONSERVATION FUND | $100,000 |
| THE ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| CLUBHOUSE ATLANTA - CHALLENGE GRANT | $33,000 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $33,000 |
| SANDY SPRINGS ARTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER | $25,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS | $25,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $22,245 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| SKYLAND TRAIL | $10,000 |
| ZOO ATLANTA | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- TATHE ATLANTA OPERA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +684%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $103k · revenue +568%
- FIFernbank Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION GEORGIA CHAPTERone grant, 2024 · $30k
- AAATLANTA AREA COUNCIL BSAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- HOHistoric Oakland Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
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.…
Atlanta celebrates photography (dba atlanta center for photography) (acp) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the american south. through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, acp supports…
Atlanta habitat for humanity transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families.
South Fulton Arts is a regional catalyst for the advancement of the arts, education, and environment that enriches lives and communities.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Southern Center for International Studies 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.
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 46 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 50 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 ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sandy Springs Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Theatrical Outfit Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds TRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
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 Livingston 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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