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R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$2.8MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$592kArts & Culture$565kHousing & Shelter$500kScience & Tech$350kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE HUNDRED MILES INC$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA DAF$168,974
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB$100,000
SER FAMILIA$100,000
GOOD NEWS CLINICS$100,000
MANOMET INC$91,666
TNTP INC$90,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
EMORY EYE CENTER$77,000
HOPEGIVERS$75,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
OKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $707k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IAMHOLDENON INC: $75k → 14%JUST PEOPLE: $5k → 13%LENBROOK SQUARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE INC: $75k → 13%MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 13%SER FAMILIA: $100k → 13%CARING WORKS: $75k → 13%CHRIS 180: $50k → 13%REIMAGINEATL: $50k → 13%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $48k → 13%IAMHOLDENON INC: $25k → 13%GCAPP: $25k → 13%GCAPP: $25k → 13%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $48k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 89% of R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 52 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
71

Total granted

$6.7M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • OH
    One Hundred Miles Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1000k · revenue +13%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +55%
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • D
    DAF
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $195k · revenue -12%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
2
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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3
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth

Georgia Partnership for Telehealth, Inc. is a charitable nonprofit corporation which was formed to promote impovements in healthcare and healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities throughout the state of Georgia by…

Health
4
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
5
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
6
Georgia Assoc for Primary Health

The organization's mission is to improve access to comprehensive primary healthcare services for all

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7
Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…

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8
Georgia Biosciences Organization Inc

The mission of georgia biosciences organization is to advance the life sciences industry in georgia by promoting innovation, workforce development, and public understanding of its impact on the economy, health, and quality of life. the…

Community Improvement
9
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
10
Georgia Hospital Association

The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…

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11
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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12
LeadingAge Georgia Inc

The statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-driven organizations dedicated to providing quality housing, health care, community based and other related services for older Georgians. The mission of the association is to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%1%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr8%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%1%<5yr17%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr9%43%35–55yr8%8%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/79
the rest of the field
22%
2,244/10,381

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.

05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 141 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
51/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAF — $400,000 · OtherDAFSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $400,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERTHE GREY MATTER PROJECT (DBA THE CURRENT) — $300,000 · OtherMANOMET INC — $258,332 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $240,000 · Other+83 more — $5,358,290 · Other+83 moreOne Hundred Miles Inc — $999,500 · EnvironmentOne Hundred Mil…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR P…GREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentGREENING YOUTH …SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc — $85,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA FORESTWATCH INC — $79,500 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $76,000 · EnvironmentWest Atlanta Watershed Alliance — $75,000 · Environment+2 more — $60,000 · EnvironmentGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC — $195,000 · HealthGOOD SAMA…MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC — $145,000 · HealthMERCY CAR…BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $100,000 · HealthBREAKTHRU…GOOD NEWS CLINICS INC — $100,000 · HealthGOOD NEWS…THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN — $100,000 · HealthTHE MEDIC…GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB INC — $100,000 · HealthGOOD SAMA…RESILIENT GEORGIA INC — $52,500 · HealthMOSAIC GEORGIA INC — $50,000 · HealthALBANY AREA PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INC — $50,000 · HealthBETHESDA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $45,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS CBWW INC — $45,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $40,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $943,974 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc — $40,000 · PhilanthropyCHRIS 180 INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesQUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTED CONTENT INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA — $100,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesCaringWorks Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesMary Hall Freedom Village Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesREIMAGINE ATL — $50,000 · Human Services+3 more — $22,000 · Human ServicesAtlanta Speech School Inc — $150,000 · EducationEmory University — $145,000 · EducationAtlanta Neighborhood Charter School — $130,000 · EducationGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc — $90,000 · EducationCanopy Atlanta — $75,000 · EducationGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $75,000 · EducationGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $52,655 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab — $50,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,956,622Environment$1,735,000Health$1,022,500Philanthropy$983,974Human Services$942,000Education$767,655Arts & Culture$350,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc — $999,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $943,974 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $250,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC — $195,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC — $145,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEmory University — $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Neighborhood Charter School — $130,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY — $110,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCONNECTED CONTENT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSER FAMILIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPARTNERS FOR HOME INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC — $95,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC — $90,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetGeorgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetPrevent Blindness Georgia — $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGIA FORESTWATCH INC — $79,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $76,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCanopy Atlanta — $75,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCaringWorks Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMary Hall Freedom Village Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWest Atlanta Watershed Alliance — $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC — $70,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN LLC — $70,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetRESILIENT GEORGIA INC — $52,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…Jesse Parker Williams…United Way of Greater…Georgia Health Initia…Tull Charitable Found…Tr Uw Charles I BrananKaiser Foundation Hea…The Waterfall Foundat…Betty and Davis Fitzg…James M Cox Foundatio…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA67.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jesse Parker Williams Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Health Initiative Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia 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 R Howard Dobbs Jr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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