· Private foundation
Lonnie L Michael Foundation
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 $10k29 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UGA FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORG | $3,314 |
| MISSION OF SIGHT | $3,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE CENTRAL HISPANIC SDA | $2,500 |
| ATHENS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| TDNR CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| THRIVE ACADEMY | $1,650 |
| ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH CENTRAL GA | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ATHFEST EDUCATES ATHFEST INC | $1,000 |
| THE CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PIEDMONT ATHENS REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +112%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC3× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +94%
- AAAthens Academy Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $13k
- EEEMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $6k
- PPPeace Preparatory Academy Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
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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.
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Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Athens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 93 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 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace Preparatory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds UGA Tee Off Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds CLUTE BARROW NELSON LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TDNR Corporation ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NATL COUNCIL 101 NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY OF CLARKE COUNTY AND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION 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: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Walton Electric Trust Inc · The Harris Foundation · The Alice and Noah N Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Thomas McKey Tillman Foundation Inc
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 Lonnie L Michael 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.