· Private foundation
Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation Inc
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 $10k16 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA | $70,000 |
| ATLANTA CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| LAKEVIEW ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| THE ATLANTA OPERA | $45,000 |
| THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE SUNSHINE HOUSE REGIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN TRUST FOR OXFORD | $20,000 |
| THE ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $15,000 |
| GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $15,000 |
| GOLDEN ISLE YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $13,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TATHE ATLANTA OPERA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +533%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $171k · revenue +112%
- TLTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CBCOMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MIMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -56%
- QCQUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +64%
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.
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…
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.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
Woodward academy provides college preparatory education for students in pre-k through grade 12. woodward intentionally brings together students from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, creating a richer learning community…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Pup & Cat Co. 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 49 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 15% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 74 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 OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA WILD ANIMAL RESCUE EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Howard School Inc ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main
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 Roy and Janet Dorsey 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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