· Private foundation
Michaels Family Charitable Foundation Katharine M Post
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of MICHAELS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION KATHARINE M POST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NE GEORGIA | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $10,250 |
| TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL GUILD | $5,500 |
| PERSIST NASHVILLE | $5,000 |
| EMORY - WINSHIP CANCER INSITUTE | $3,000 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $2,500 |
| SAINT PAUL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| BRENTWOOD ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| A SQUASH | $2,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $1,500 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE | $1,035 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +46%- TGTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
- WBWESTDRIFT BEACH GOLF COURSEone grant, 2020 · $4k
- WAWOOD ACRES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Our mission is to provide an environment that nurtures total development while guiding students toward the joy of lifelong learning.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School and the most unlike its peers is Jesse Parker Williams Foundation 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 55 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FAMILIES AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE I ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds PERSIST NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IN HIS GRIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds WOOD ACRES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Blake King Corp ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES & GOLF 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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Hbb Foundation · The L&C Wood Family Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 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 Michaels Family Charitable Foundation Katharine M Post 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.
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech — 1% 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.