· Private foundation
Nancy Forsyth Noblin Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| THE DRAKE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| OPEN HAND ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST | $15,000 |
| ATLANTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA FULTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON | $10,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| THE ZADIE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY | $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 (FY19–24, $147k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- TDThe Drake House Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +11%
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +13%
- OHOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -51%
- HHADDASSAHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JLJADENS LADDERone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -98%
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.
Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Feeding homeless individuals in Downtown Atlanta.
To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.
Just Bakery of Atlanta partners with our neighbors who resettled as refugees through paid job training, professional certification, and living wage work.
To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…
Provides a holistic program with comprehensive midwifery care, a nurturing environment where you feel supported, respected, safe and secure, and personalized family-centered care.
Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
HomeAids mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Bosleys Place 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 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 21% 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 57 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 The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Dawson County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ZADIE PROJECTINC ↗
- Who funds BOSLEYS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE JUNGLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds JADENS LADDER ↗
- Who funds CANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Waffle House 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 Nancy Forsyth Noblin 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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