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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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$40MSocial Science$8.7MInternational$1.2MPhilanthropy$619kPublic Benefit$353kScience & Tech$150kHealth$135kReligion$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $504k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
$93,400
Median grant
7
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC$1,400,000
HARMONY INSTITUTE$1,260,000
EYEBEAM ATELIER$505,000
AMIGOS DE COSTA RICA$201,000
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE$157,500
SCREENWRITERS COLONY$93,400
REPRESENT US EDUCATION FUND$52,500
ALMANACK ARTS COLONY$35,000
THE SAKYONG POTRANG$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$10,000
SHINZEN YOUNG FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ROOM TO GROW: $100k → 28%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50M · 15 repeat orgs$665k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$50M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+37%

Still filing today

60%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentEmploymentInternationalOther
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

  • GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23M · revenue +138% · 51% of their budget
  • AO
    AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $697k · revenue +145%
  • ND
    NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CL
    CENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -66%
  • CL
    CENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACION PERIODISTICA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
5
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
6
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
7
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

—
10
American Institute of Graphic Arts

To set the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political and cultural contexts.

Arts & Culture
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is D&R Greenway Land Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Seward Johnson Atelier Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 38 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $23,080,846 · Arts & CultureGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INCTHE SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC: $13,035,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC+6 more: $1,158,400 · Arts & CultureHARMONY INSTITUTE: $8,454,750 · OtherHARMONY INSTITUTEAMIGOS DE COSTA RICA: $396,000 · Other+21 more: $1,117,680 · Other+21 moreTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $2,705,000 · EmploymentAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $696,750 · InternationalIMPACTASSETSINC: $605,250 · Philanthropy+1 more: $13,290 · PhilanthropyRepresentUs Education Fund: $352,500 · Public BenefitROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$37,274,246Other$9,968,430Employment$2,705,000International$696,750Philanthropy$618,540Public Benefit$352,500Human Services$125,000

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 budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $23,080,846 over 5y, 51% of budgetTHE SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC: $13,035,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $2,705,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $696,750 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $605,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS: $541,400 over 5y, 71% of budgetALMANACK ARTS COLONY INC: $360,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $352,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $85,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCOUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC: $13,290 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAPPY BREW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNEW YORK HARM REDUCTION EDUCATORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetD&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTOUTSBURG SOURLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cecelia Joyce and Sew…The Robert Wood Johns…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Community Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation IncNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Atlantic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Atlantic Foundation 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 38 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-PF 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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