· Private foundation
Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THALIA & MICHAEL C CARLOS FOUNDATION IN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL C CARLOS MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| ATLANTA BALLET MICHAEL C CARLOS DANCE CENTRE | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $85,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $80,000 |
| CHRIS 180 | $60,000 |
| GIVING KITCHEN | $60,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DIVERSITY INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF GEORGIA | $50,000 |
| GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $50,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $40,000 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $35,000 |
| ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| SWEET AUBURN WORKS | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- AHATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $385k · revenue +141%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +46%- GTGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- CACENTRAL ATLANTA PROGRESS INC (PRINCE HALL MASON BLDG)one grant, 2021 · $50k
- ECEMORY CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF ATLANTA (MATCHING GRANT WITH CARLOS DAF)one grant, 2022 · $50k
- ZAZOO ATLANTAone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
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…
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
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.…
It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…
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…
Provide victims of crime with comprehensive services for the successful transition of victim to survivor.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
The aclu of georgia is dedicated to preserving the civil liberties enshrined in the u.s. constitution and bill of rights. through litigation, lobbying, and communications, the aclu of georgia works to preserve and enhance the rights of all…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Irish Arts of Atlanta 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 32 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 126 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 ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET AUBURN WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CRITIC ATL INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds USHER 2020 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER 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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta 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 Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In 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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