Georgia · Private foundation
Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $74,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $464,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $2.9M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $2.7M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.5M | 81% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $804k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $3.9M | 80% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $656k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Income Investment Fund | $2,100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Grove Park Foundation Inc | $1,763,766 | 6 | 18% |
| East Lake Foundationinc | $1,612,656 | 6 | 22% |
| My Connect Community | $1,289,308 | 7 | 21% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $1,109,494 | 4 | 15% |
| Purpose Built Schools Atlanta Inc | $1,043,324 | 2 | 6% |
| Fcs Urban Ministries Inc | $464,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas City Neighborhood Academy | $382,956 | 2 | 10% |
| The Mill District Inc | $356,200 | 3 | 94% |
| Lift Orlando Inc | $290,500 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Low Income Investment Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Blue Meridian Partners Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · C F Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
Compare Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc with peer funders
About Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc
- How much does Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc give?
- Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc reported 34 grants totaling $2,962,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (33%), Education (26%), Housing & Shelter (22%).
- Who are Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Low Income Investment Fund ($2.1M), Grove Park Foundation Inc ($1.8M), East Lake Foundationinc ($1.6M).
- Does Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Low Income Investment Fund, Truist Foundation Inc, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc.
- Where is Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc based?
- Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc is based in GA.
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