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The 2492 Fund Howell

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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$107kEnvironment$106kFood & Nutrition$94kEducation$76kHealth$76kArts & Culture$75kCrime & Legal$55kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$13,500
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERV$10,000
YALE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$10,000
ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$10,000
ATLANTA MISSION$5,000
FBIAA$5,000
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEM FND$5,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$5,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT - NEW ORLEANS$5,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
BEARING BIKE WORKS$5,000
SHEPHERD CENTER$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE INNOCENSCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%PROJECT LEMONADE: $2k → 12%CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT: $5k → 8%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $500 → 11%THE INNOCENSE PROJECT: $4k → 17%PROJECT LEMONADE: $2k → 12%CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT: $3k → 8%THE INNOCENSCE PROJECT: $4k → 17%PROJECT LEMONADE: $2k → 12%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%FAMILIES FIRST: $3k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $2k → 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

MN
NY
OR
IA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$728k · 66 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
23

Total granted

$728k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +50%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • TC
    TPL CHATTAHOOCHEE PROGRAM DIRECTOR ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TC
    TPL CHATTAHOOCHEE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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

60 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. 60 of the 96 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
39/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $55,500 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF CCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP: $50,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIPCHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERV: $26,500 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $17,500 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $17,500 · OtherAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $20,500 · Other+51 more: $295,250 · Other+51 moreATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $35,500 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COM…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL ARE…Feeding America: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…FOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD WELL A…GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $4,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: $7,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST INC: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,500 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentPROPEL ATL INC: $14,250 · EducationTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $9,500 · EducationThe Potomac School: $5,500 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $5,250 · EducationThe Westminster Schools Inc: $5,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,250 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsLADIES OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTA PRESERVATION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$507,750Food & Nutrition$84,000Human Services$50,500Environment$47,000Education$44,000Recreation & Sports$41,250Arts & Culture$38,000

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 budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,250 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC: $14,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potomac School: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA PRESERVATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAcorns to Oaks Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLADIES OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL ATL INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
  • Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗

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 Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA35.2× affinity17 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Medlin-Hale Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Waterfall 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 The 2492 Fund Howell funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 2492 Fund Howell. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 96 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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