· Private foundation
Overton & Lavona Currie Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $250k+1 grant · $782k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF | $781,960 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF | $40,558 |
| ATLANTA BALLET | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $823k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +59%
- TATHE ATLANTA OPERA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +533%
- AHATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…
Present world-class mixed ensemble chamber music to a broad audience, contribute to the future of chamber music through commissioning of new works
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta's downtown theatre, mission is to produce world-class theatre that starts the conversations that matter. Our vision is a compassionate community grounded in dignity, justice, and equity.We create theatre with a…
Whole World is a non-profit improv theatre founded in 1994 providing an artistic home for people of all ages who wish to be educated and grow through this artistic expression all while cultivating actors to compete
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…
The aurora theatre is committed to producing quality, professional theatre for the southeast, north georgia, and our most ardent supporters, the residents of gwinnett county. we will serve these communities by offering entertainment that…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GLOATL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA PRESERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Overton & Lavona Currie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Overton & Lavona Currie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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