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The Atmos 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.

$520k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$935kInternational$402kYouth Development$115kAnimals$75kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$30kHuman Services$15kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Parkinsons Foundation$300,000
American Friends of RAMBAM$150,000
CPMC Sutter Health$50,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Planned Parenthood ofthe Great Nort$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $15k → 6%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 31%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%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

WA
NY
PA
CA
MD
DC
MS
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Atmos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Atmos Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-5%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $635k · revenue +109%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +21%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • YF
    Youth Futures JAFI
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IE
    ISRAEL ENDOWMENT-YOUTH VILLAGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • Tutwiler Community Education Center
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -35%
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.

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MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
2
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
John Muir Physician Network

To establish, operate and maintain multi-specialty medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services. engage in, sponsor and promote charitable healthcare, educational and medical research activities and provide health plan services…

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
11
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic…

Philanthropy
12
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John Muir Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tutwiler Community Education Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $635,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION+2 more: $9,000 · HealthCPMC Sutter Health: $198,000 · OtherCPMC Sutter HealthIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Jewish Agency for Israel: $40,000 · OtherThe Jewish Agency for IsraelWOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherWOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONFriends of Yemin Orde-YOUTH VILLAGE: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $73,000 · Other+6 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $270,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAM…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES US…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $75,000 · Human ServicesTutwiler Community Education Center: $5,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$684,000Other$469,000International$400,000Human Services$80,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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 budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $635,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $270,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $75,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Tutwiler Community Education Center ↗
  • Who funds Center for Environmental Health ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    1report 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, 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 Atmos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Atmos 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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