· Private foundation
The Aem Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHASTAIN HORSE PARK | $170,000 |
| CALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTER | $125,000 |
| HOLY INNOCENTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $120,200 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| EMORY WINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $25,000 |
| ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| ANDEE'S ARMY | $20,000 |
| SKYLAND TRAIL BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER | $15,000 |
| THE GATHERING INDUSTRIES | $10,000 |
| MISTY CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- CHCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +164%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $550k · revenue +47%
- ADARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ATLANTAone grant, 2017 · $75k
- WCWINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE OF EMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JLJACOB'S LADDER SCHOOL & THERAPY CENTERSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission is to deliver a lifetime of quality and compassionate care for each patient we serve.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To advance health and well-being of persons requiring rehabilitation through superior outcomes, service, education and research.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gathering Industries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gathering Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds WESCOE FOUNDATION FOR PULMONARY FIBROSIS ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TFalls Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION 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 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Aem Family Foundation 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.