· Private foundation
Morning Star Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| GRANT PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| POINT WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER | $1,500 |
| GRANT PARK PARENTS NETWORK | $1,250 |
| NORTHSIDE CHURCH | $1,250 |
| THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GPGrant Park Conservancy Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +308%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +47%
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER ATLANTA CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $7k
- MAMOUNTAINFILM ATL INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
- GSGULF SHORE MANOR POAone grant, 2020 · $2k
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the Atlanta Humane Society is to improve animal welfare in the southeastern United States by providing quality animal services including preventative initiatives, education, advocacy and adoption of animals into permanent…
Empower, educate, and equip kinship caregivers with tools and resources to provide safe, stable homes and keep children out of foster care
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.
Park pride believes in the power of parks, and we work to help neighborhood groups create a network of greenspaces that contribute to the overall health and well-being of atlanta.
Georgia innocence project (gip) is an independent organization that works holistically to free innocent people from georgia prisons, to assist exonerees with rebuilding their lives in freedom, and mitigate the causes and consequences of…
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
Trees atlanta protects and improves atlanta's urban forest by planting, conserving, and educating the public about the benefits of trees and their importance for the health and well-being of our community. we empower community-based…
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…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Beloved atlanta is an anti-sex trafficking organization lovingly equipping brave women on their path to freedom. we accomplish this through safe housing, mental health services, thrength based case management, and healthy community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Mountainfilm Atl Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 Grant Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ATL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds LALAFOFOFO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN TRUST FOR PARKS & LAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Dog Ranch Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MARANNOOK 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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Morning Star Foundation Inc 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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