· Private foundation
The Arthur R and Ruth D Lautz Charitable Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHEPHERD CENTER | $15,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM ART | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| THE GIVING KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| SONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +40%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC4× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +50%
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PCPeachtree Churchone grant, 2020 · $60k
- BBROOKHAVENone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds SONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arthur R and Ruth D Lautz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arthur R and Ruth D Lautz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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