· Private foundation
Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fernbank Museum | $7,541 |
| Clifton Sanctuary Ministries | $6,500 |
| Dekalb County Casa Program | $6,000 |
| Buckhead Heritage Society | $5,400 |
| Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre | $5,052 |
| Zoo Atlanta | $5,051 |
| Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts | $5,051 |
| Fernbank Museum | $5,051 |
| Aviation Career Enrichment Academy | $5,000 |
| Atlanta Botanical Gardens | $5,000 |
| Breakthru House | $3,500 |
| The Wylde Center - Youth Foundation | $3,121 |
| Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts | $3,121 |
| Trees Atlanta | $3,121 |
| Women's Resource Center | $3,064 |
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, $14k) 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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FIFernbank Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +85%
- CSClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +49%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- GIGreenLaw Incone grant, 2017 · $3k
- DLDEKALB LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- ABATLANTA BALLET INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -6%
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.
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
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…
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…
Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.
The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…
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.
To enhance and preserve Piedmont Park as a vital, urban green space and as a cultural and recreational resource that enriches the quality of life for all Atlantans.
It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clifton Sanctuary Ministries 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 44 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.
38 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. 38 of the 58 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 Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Clifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds Create Your Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds Everybody Wins Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds COOL GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Aviation Career Enrichment Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds youthSpark Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tw Price Gilbert Jr Charitable Fund · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Zeist 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 Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis 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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