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Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$26k67%
FY20202$4.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Health$4.0MHuman Services$50kPhilanthropy$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Piedmont Hospital Inc$4,027,50020%
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc$50,00010%
Red Door Community Inc$1,00010%
North Fulton Community Charities Inc$10010%

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About Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation

How much does Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation give?
Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $26,100 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (98%), Human Services (1%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Piedmont Hospital Inc ($4.0M), Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc ($50k), Red Door Community Inc ($1k).
Does Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation based?
Louise and Brett Samsky Family Foundation is based in GA.

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 5 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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