· Public charity
The American Opportunity Foundation Inc
Owning and supporting housing for moderate-to-low income families and the elderly.
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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC | $110,000 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $99,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO ATLANTA INC | $52,000 |
| GEORGE HUGHES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS CORP | $30,000 |
| NAMI GEORGIA | $25,000 |
| THE NATIONAL ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF SPELMAN COLLEGE ATLANTA CHP | $18,200 |
| AOF GEORGIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP | $15,000 |
| 826 NEW ORLEANS | $15,000 |
| IRIE DELL GRANT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $6,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $923k · revenue +104%
- WDWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $329k · revenue +36%
- NGNAMI Georgia Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- AHAOF HSI MANAGEMENT SERVICES CORPone grant, 2019 · $900k
- CECOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -66%
- TPThe Power of Girlsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +99%
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.
To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.
Our mission is to foster inclusive pathways to advanced research doctorates by enhancing the recruitment retention success and well-being of historically excluded students especially Black women.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
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…
A house on beekman's mission is to empower children and youth in the south bronx to flourish by providing programs that focus on academic, social, and emotional health.
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…
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Housing Partnerships, Inc creates great communities through direct investments and partnerships.
The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Warrick Dunn Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is 826 New Orleans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALUMNAE ASSOC SPELMAN COLLEGE ATLANTA CHP ↗
- Who funds 826 NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds AOF GEORGIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds The Power of Girls ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds Cobb Collaborative 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 American Opportunity Foundation Inc 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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