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The Arnold Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOBBY DODD COACH OF THE YEAR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA | $50,000 |
| PEACHTREE FARM INC | $35,000 |
| PEACHTREE FARM INC | $35,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION - SHARE | $5,500 |
| NORTHSIDE ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE GEORGIA LIONS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DAUGHTERS AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S | $5,000 |
| BOBBY DODD MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT | $4,900 |
| NORTHSIDE ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $3,200 |
| MT VERNON 1972 CLUB | $1,972 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA | $1,900 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY CORPORATION | $1,050 |
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 (FY20–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- PFPEACHTREE FARM3× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue +148% · 35% of their budget
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
- BDBOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT)5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +582%
Funded once
- EUEmory Universityone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +16%
- ACATLANTA COMFORT WOMEN MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SISoccer In the Streets Incone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -16%
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 make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
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…
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.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
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…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
For more than 100 years, forsyth has been a leader in oral health research and pediatric dental care. today, we are grounded in a 3-pillared strategic plan focused on biological research, clinical service and public health outreach, and…
The corporation is a medicare-certified hospice and at all times will be operated for the purpose of helping to meet the medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients and their families and mobilizing other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Amelia Island Plantation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 96 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 PEACHTREE FARM ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds BOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT) ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds Soccer In the Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Northside Athletes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENDY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS ↗
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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Mr and Mrs Quill Healey II Charitable Tr · The Glustrom Family Foundation Inc · Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In
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 Arnold 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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