· Private foundation
The Arthur M Blank 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $423k
- $10k–50k155 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k204 grants · $20M
- $250k+144 grants · $188M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $20,000,000 |
| UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION INC | $10,000,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $8,000,000 |
| THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC | $6,500,000 |
| BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC | $5,908,180 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $5,436,865 |
| APF SUPPORT INC | $5,000,000 |
| 4 RANGES COMMUNITY RECREATION FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $5,000,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $4,950,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMANRIGHTS INC | $4,000,000 |
| THE HENRY W GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $4,000,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND INC | $3,400,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $3,100,000 |
| UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
443 repeat relationships — 254 still active in FY2024, 189 since wound down; 229 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70M 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
BABSON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +22%- ABATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2020–2021 · $16M · revenue +267% · 30% of their budget
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $9.3M · revenue +96%
Funded once
- BCBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION THE AVALON FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3.8M
- TATHE AVALON NTWK INC DBA AVALON ACTION ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
- MBMORRIS BROWN COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +21%
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.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peak Grantmaking Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation. 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 24 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
859 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. 859 of the 1,276 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 4 RANGES COMMUNITY RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HealthMPowers Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Park County Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · AEC Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc
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 Arthur M Blank 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
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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