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Realan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $370,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA | $25,000 |
| ODYSSEY INC | $15,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METRO ATLANTA | $15,000 |
| TRAINING & COUNSELING CENTER | $10,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SOUNDS OF SAVINGS | $10,000 |
| WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FDN | $10,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CARE USA | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of Realan 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, 87% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- BABREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +57%
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +49%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TATHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +16%
- EUEmory Universityone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +16%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
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.…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odyssey Inc and the most unlike its peers is B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
40 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. 40 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 ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
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- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds CLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC ↗
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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 Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Imlay 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 Realan 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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