· Private foundation
Morgens West Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH | $175,000 |
| BIRDS GEORGIA | $150,000 |
| ATLANTA VOLUNTER LAWYERS FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP | $65,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA | $60,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $35,000 |
| PARK PRIDE | $33,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $30,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| ATLANTA BONATICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| MOVING IN THE SPIRIT | $10,000 |
| BREVARD MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF NE GA-PHP | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- BGBirds Georgia Corporation3× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +94%
- CICommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +109%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITY'S ADRCone grant, 2023 · $175k
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -28%
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 mission of the atlanta land trust (alt) is to deliver and steward permanently affordable housing to support inclusive, equitable communities near the atlanta beltline and other targeted areas in the city of atlanta.
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…
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Atlanta habitat for humanity transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families.
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Atlanta celebrates photography (dba atlanta center for photography) (acp) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the american south. through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, acp supports…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve 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 42 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 — 0.0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 60 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 ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds Birds Georgia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TOXAWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Homestead 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 Morgens West 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.
- Year Up 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.