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The American Opportunity Foundation Inc

Owning and supporting housing for moderate-to-low income families and the elderly.

$488k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MEducation$613kYouth Development$162kHealth$125kHuman Services$110k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $361k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
826 NEW ORLEANS$15,000
AOF GEORGIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP$15,000
IRIE DELL GRANT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$6,800
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $75k → 10%CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS CORP: $35k → 13%CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS CORP: $30k → 13%CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS CORP: $10k → 13%CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS CORP: $10k → 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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+99%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KS
    KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $923k · revenue +104%
  • WD
    WARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $329k · revenue +43%
  • NG
    NAMI Georgia Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AH
    AOF HSI MANAGEMENT SERVICES CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $900k
  • CE
    COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -59%
  • SW
    SHADOW WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 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
2
Cohort Sistas Inc

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.

Education
3
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International
4
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
A House On Beekman Inc

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.

Human Services
7
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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8
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Housing Partnerships Inc

Housing Partnerships, Inc creates great communities through direct investments and partnerships.

Housing & Shelter
11
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Warrick Dunn Charities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AOF HSI MANAGEMENT SERVICES CORP: $900,000 · OtherAOF HSI MANAGEMENT SERVICES CORPBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $152,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta IncNAMI Georgia Inc: $125,000 · OtherNAMI Georgia IncGEORGE M HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · OtherGEORGE M HUGHES FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL ALUMNAE ASSOC SPELMAN COLLEGE ATLANTA CHP: $66,200 · Other+3 more: $45,000 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $923,279 · EducationKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN…THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC+2 more: $21,800 · EducationWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC: $329,000 · Housing & ShelterWARRICK DUNN CH…The Drake House Inc: $92,761 · Housing & ShelterThe Drake House…CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Power of Girls: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCobb Collaborative Inc: $5,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,373,200Education$1,055,079Housing & Shelter$421,761Human Services$160,000Youth Development$10,000Community Improvement$5,500

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 budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $923,279 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC: $329,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $152,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNAMI Georgia Inc: $125,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $92,761 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL ALUMNAE ASSOC SPELMAN COLLEGE ATLANTA CHP: $66,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetAOF GEORGIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget826 NEW ORLEANS: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSpelman College: $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCobb Collaborative Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% 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…Georgia Power Foundat…United Way of Greater…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA16.3× affinity6 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 · 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

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 American Opportunity Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Opportunity Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The American Opportunity Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The American Opportunity Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 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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