How much does Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis give?

Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis reported 45 grants totaling $120,604 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fernbank Inc ($66k), Clifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc ($43k), Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc ($42k).

Does Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc.

Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis

Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis at a glance

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Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis

Q: What does Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Environment (14%), Human Services (14%).

Q: Where is Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis based?

Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis is based in GA.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$229kEnvironment$131kHuman Services$130kEducation$100kHealth$59kHousing & Shelter$59kFood & Nutrition$55kYouth Development$53kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,070

Median grant

States reached

$966k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Fernbank Museum	$5,051
Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts	$5,051
Atlanta Botanical Gardens	$5,000
Aviation Career Enrichment Academy	$5,000
Breakthru House	$3,500
Trees Atlanta	$3,121
Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts	$3,121
The Wylde Center - Youth Foundation	$3,121
Women's Resource Center	$3,064

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$920k · 50 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$920k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

Still filing today

66%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

FI
Fernbank Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +85%
CS
Clifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +49%
RW
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +51%

Funded once

GI
GreenLaw Inc
one grant, 2017 · $3k
DL
DEKALB LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
AB
ATLANTA BALLET INC
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -6%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Atlanta Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

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,…

Human Services

Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

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…

Environment

The Atlanta Academy Inc

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.

Education

Georgia Appleseed Inc

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…

Civil Rights

Horizons Atlanta Inc

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.

Youth Development

Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc

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.

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Leadership Atlanta Inc

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…

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Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter

Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

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…

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

27/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$418,490Arts & Culture$193,994Environment$138,869Education$75,590Housing & Shelter$42,500Health$36,330Youth Development$29,536

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA43.1× affinity21 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 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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Brown Fund of Atlanta Georgia co Frances Davis. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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