· Private foundation
Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k90 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC | $300,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC | $100,000 |
| WOODWARD ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC | $36,000 |
| MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC | $36,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOC OF NORTH AMERICA | $25,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOC OF NORTH AMERICA | $18,000 |
| THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC | $15,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $14,500 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC | $10,000 |
| 24 7 GATEWAY LLC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN OF ATLANTA INC | $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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust’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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- MJMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $772k · revenue +54%
- WAWOODWARD ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +81%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UBUPSTART BAY AREAone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -46%
- FOFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INCone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -32%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +58%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Parkinsons Research and Education Foundation 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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
209 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. 209 of the 253 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 247 GATEWAY LLC ↗
- Who funds 4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORENCE MELTON ADULT MINI-SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSEPROUD ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEASTERN PANS PANDAS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID 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: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin 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 Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust 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.
- Forge Foundation Inc — 27% of income from government
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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