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Saul P and Nellie Z Axelroad Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Saul P and Nellie Z Axelroad Charitable 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.

$721k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$787kArts & Culture$285kPhilanthropy$266kInternational$250kEducation$236kHuman Services$125kRecreation & Sports$100kReligion$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $338k
$9,600
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY$80,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$78,000
ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL$72,000
THE GOODE FOUNDATION$57,500
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$50,000
PURPLE PANSIES$49,600
AURORA DAY CAMP$33,234
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$29,115
ROCK THE BLOCK$25,000
OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE$25,000
RENAISSANCE KARES$23,500
GIVING GRACE$22,200
UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$20,000
IAN'S FRIEND FOUNDATION$15,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATIONS INC$13,287
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Low Country Warrior Moms: $5k → 12%ALABAMA HANDS AND VOICES: $6k → 16%ALL HANDS AND VOICES: $3k → 8%RENAISSANCE KARES: $24k → 9%Senior Citizens INC: $5k → 16%RENAISSANCE KARES: $15k → 9%RENAISSANCE KARES: $15k → 9%LOW COUNTRY WARRIOR MOMS: $2k → 12%AURORA DAY CAMP: $33k → 13%AURORA DAY CAMP: $20k → 13%Hop On a Cure Foundation: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 28 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
55

Total granted

$1.6M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+1%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $145k · revenue +43%
  • CS
    City Springs Theatre
    3× · 2023–2025 · $138k · revenue +116%
  • TO
    THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $82k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SJ
    Savannah Jewish Federation
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • KT
    KEVIN TURNER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Curenfwithjack

The mission of CureNFwithJack is to accelerate awareness and find a cure or effective treatment through the funding of research. CureNFwithJack provides seed money for innovate research in multiple areas, including but not limited to drug…

Education
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
4
Atlanta Cancer Care Foundation Inc

To reduce the additional stress that a cancer diagnosis could bring by providing living expense assistance to patients in financial need.

Health
5
Carrie-Lynn Grazette Cancer Foundation of Atlanta

provide assitance for cancer stricken children

Food & Nutrition
6
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
7
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
8
Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation Inc

To improve the quality of life for brain tumor patients and their families and to raise funds for brain tumor research so that a cure can be found.

Health
9
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
10
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
11
Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

Our Mission is to inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the health of children and their families in Canada and around the world.

Human Services
12
Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc

Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a genetic disease that causes loss of muscle control and balance, cancer, lung disease, and immune system problems in children and young adults, shortening their lives. The nonprofit A-T Children's Project…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Renaissance Kares Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
30/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GOODE FOUNDATION: $221,000 · OtherTHE GOODE FOUNDATIONST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $208,300 · OtherST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITALGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $102,115 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCCAMP AURORA DAY CAMP: $58,000 · OtherCAMP AURORA DAY CAMP+55 more: $421,120 · Other+55 morePurple Pansies Inc: $104,030 · HealthPurple Pansies IncTHE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $81,500 · HealthTHE OVARIAN CANCER INS…ROCK THE BLOCK INC: $65,000 · HealthROCK THE BLOCK INCIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $61,500 · HealthIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…KEVIN TURNER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $18,940 · Health+6 more: $40,500 · Health+6 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $237,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIO…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $145,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…Milton High School Band Booster Club Inc: $20,630 · EducationMilton High…ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationZETA BETA T…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $13,287 · EducationGEORGIA TEC…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMilton Eagles PTO Inc: $8,500 · Education+5 more: $15,090 · Education+5 moreCity Springs Theatre: $137,900 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILIPPINES CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,809 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE KARES INC: $53,500 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $53,234 · Human ServicesGIVING GRACE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY WARRIOR MOMS: $7,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesHOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesPENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD INC: $10,000 · ReligionHEART FOR AFRICA INC: $2,500 · Religion
Other$1,010,535Health$436,470International$238,000Education$237,507Arts & Culture$161,709Human Services$147,234Religion$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $237,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Springs Theatre: $137,900 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPurple Pansies Inc: $104,030 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $81,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetROCK THE BLOCK INC: $65,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $61,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRENAISSANCE KARES INC: $53,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $53,234 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMilton High School Band Booster Club Inc: $20,630 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $18,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALK POSITIVE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING GRACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $13,287 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Link Counseling Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMilton Eagles PTO Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSouthern Magnolia Charities Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY WARRIOR MOMS: $7,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetIVY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMadelyns Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL ACTION INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlpharetta Elementary School PTO Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSTAR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthwestern Middle School PTO Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBLUE & GOLD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHEART FOR AFRICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICING SMILES Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHands and Voices of Georgia Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDRAWCHANGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVITED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Arthur M Blank Fa…RothkopfGreenberg Fam…The Billi Marcus Foun…Betty and Davis Fitzg…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Atlanta Braves Founda…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA22.5× affinity11 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 · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · RothkopfGreenberg Family Foundation Trust · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saul P and Nellie Z Axelroad Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saul P and Nellie Z Axelroad Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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