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The Atl Trust

Alleviate structural barriers to black youth success by working with after school programs to increase the social capital of black youth and their families.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Youth Development$365kCrime & Legal$125kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$25kEducation$20k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION PROMISE INITIATIVE$30,000
3D GIRLS INC$30,000
LEAD CENTER FOR YOUTH$20,000
RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC$20,000
LEAD INC$10,000
HELPING EMPOWER BLACK YOUTH$10,000
NEXT GENERATION MEN AND WOMEN INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%LEAD INC: $20k → 13%LEAD CENTER FOR YOUTH: $20k → 13%LEAD INC: $20k → 13%LEAD INC: $10k → 13%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$467k · 7 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$467k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+53%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RE
    RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +164%
  • LI
    LEAD INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +57%
  • NG
    NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STUDY HALL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -20%
  • GT
    GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +53%
  • ST
    SHOES THAT FITgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +333%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catalyst Global Youth Initiatives

Mentoring and academic enrichment

Public Benefit
2
Georgia Stars Basketball Inc

Ga stars basketballs mission is to help develop the youths abilities both mentally and physically in basketball in addition to providing an avenue for physical education and physical training in the field of basketball.

Youth Development
3
Mentoring Young Minds

Mentoring Young Minds inspires, educates and empowers youth with a focus on academic, social-emotional skills and physical activites through mentoring, leadership, and life skills development, while building relationships with positive…

Youth Development
4
Stem Gems Inc

STEM Gems is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building a stronger, more inclusive STEM pipeline by empowering girls and young women of all backgrounds to explore, pursue, and excel in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).…

Youth Development
5
Atlanta Youth Soccer Foundation Inc

Provide underpriviledged youth an opportunity to play soccer in a safe, nuturing environment

Recreation & Sports
6
Simply Girls Incorporated

Serve girls 6-16 through Afterschool and summer enrichment programs. Providing mentorship and encouragement for all girls.

Youth Development
7
Cool Boys Communication Inc

Education

8
SocialSocietyU Inc

To empower youth and young adults through educational programs mentorship and career development opportunities supporting their personal and professional growth in underserved communities.

Education
9
Get in the Game

Get in the game (gitg)is an experiential, peer-to-peer learning platform designed to provide middle-school and high school students with racial equity education that facilitates structural change.

Youth Development
10
Building Bridges Inc

To stimulate black and brown city youth about stem at an early age. the movement is to change the culture of black youth and instead, get excited about stem and celebrate its potential contribution and global stewardship.

Education
11
Mothers Raising Sons Inc Tm

Mothers Raising Sons, Inc. mission: Establish the Needs Educate Minds Enthuse Godly Talents, Gifts & Abilities Empower Purposes MRS provides proper guidance for positive family structure and the children with the foundation, structure and…

Youth Development
12
Motivated and Empowered Inc

To empower and equip girls and boys facing systemic barriers to realize their full potential through educational resources, mentorship, leadership development, and community support. Motivated and Empowered Inc. provides holistic support,…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raising Expectations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Empower Youth Incorporated. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $160,000 · EducationRAISING EXPECTATIONS INCGEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC — $20,000 · EducationGEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION A…ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION…LEAD INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INCSHOES THAT FIT — $15,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…HELPING EMPOWER YOUTH INCORPORATED — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentHELPING EMPOWER YOU…NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT GENERATION MEN…3D Girls Incorporated — $30,000 · Youth Development3D Girls Incorporat…THE STUDY HALL INC — $20,000 · OtherBlack Man Lab Foundation — $20,000 · OtherSoccer In the Streets Inc — $27,250 · Recreation & Sports
Education$180,000Crime & Legal$125,000Human Services$95,000Youth Development$95,000Other$40,000Recreation & Sports$27,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $160,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLEAD INC — $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget3D Girls Incorporated — $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc — $27,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBlack Man Lab Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 62% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18.9× affinity7 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 · The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Atl Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Atl Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Atl Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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