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The Adelphia Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Adelphia Foundation Inc

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.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$681kEnvironment$101kPhilanthropy$96kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$35kHousing & Shelter$32kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM$40,000
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY$40,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$40,000
CALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS$30,000
ONE HUNDRED MILES$15,000
AMIGOS HOSPITALITO ATTILAN$15,000
PARK SPRINGS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE KINDNESS CLOSET$10,000
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 KINDNESS CLOSET: $10k → 9%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%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

WI
NY
IA
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Adelphia Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Adelphia Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$975k · 14 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$975k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+35%

Still filing today

71%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • OU
    OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $171k · revenue +38%
  • EU
    Emory University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $87k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue +32%
  • TG
    THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +35%
  • US
    UNITED STATES BANK FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
2
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc

To protect and empower immigrant survivors of crime and persecution.

Crime & Legal
3
Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large

Health
4
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc

The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians. We produce research and state budget analysis to show Georgia ways to provide equitable education,…

Public Benefit
5
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

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,…

Human Services
6
Horizons Atlanta Inc

Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.

Youth Development
7
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.

Environment
8
Friends School of Atlanta

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…

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9
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

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…

Youth Development
10
Ebc Cares Inc

It is the mission of EBC Cares to love our neighbors through ministry and outreach to create lives of hope, security, and dignity in Atlanta, Georgia.

Human Services
11
Georgia Welcome Co-Op Inc

Our mission is to provide a welcoming home for refugees where they can find immediate safety and stability to begin a new life.

Human Services
12
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $170,580 · EducationOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INCEmory University: $169,897 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $87,499 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC: $80,000 · EducationTHRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INCPARK SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $24,410 · EducationCOMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $128,099 · OtherCOMMUNITY SCHOOL INCCALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS: $70,000 · OtherCALLANWOLDE FINE ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $20,916 · OtherTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCUNITED STATES BANK FOR UNICEF: $20,000 · OtherUNITED STATES BANK FOR UNICEFHOPE ATLANTA INC: $17,259 · OtherAMIGOS HOSPITALITO ATTILAN: $15,000 · OtherDREPUNG LOSELING MONASTERY INC: $13,000 · Other+5 more: $44,641 · Other+5 moreAmigos Hospitalito Atitlan: $75,327 · PhilanthropyAmigos Ho…THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $20,875 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVIN…One Hundred Miles Inc: $81,090 · EnvironmentGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTURNIP GREEN CREATIVE REUSE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $15,343 · Food & NutritionLADY TS HOMELESS MINISTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionJust Bakery of Atlanta Inc: $15,000 · Employment
Education$552,386Other$358,915Philanthropy$96,202Environment$86,090Arts & Culture$40,000Food & Nutrition$20,343Employment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $170,580 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $169,897 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $87,499 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $81,090 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAmigos Hospitalito Atitlan: $75,327 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $20,916 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $20,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARK SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTURNIP GREEN CREATIVE REUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $17,259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $15,343 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJust Bakery of Atlanta Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $14,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINDNESS CLOSET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA RECOVERY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $9,641 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBegin Again Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLADY TS HOMELESS MINISTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainCommunity Foundation …Tw Price Gilbert Jr C…Tull Charitable Found…The Coca-Cola Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …United Way of Greater…Charities Aid Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA21.7× affinity9 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 · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tw Price Gilbert Jr Charitable Fund · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 The Adelphia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adelphia Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 29 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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