· Private foundation
The Besse Johnson and George Blanton Allen
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,384 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| A SQUASH | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY METRO ATLANTA | $7,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF FULTON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO | $5,000 |
| THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRICS | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $5,000 |
| VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WFWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +83%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF FULTON COUNTY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FIRST INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -32%
- TSTHE SHELTERING ARMS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -19%
- APATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUEINCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +125%
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.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.
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…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Childspring International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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
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 Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF FULTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUEINC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY COURT INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED ↗
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: Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Virgil P Warren Fdn Tr Ua · The Rich Foundation Inc · Tw Price Gilbert Jr Charitable Fund · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation
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 Besse Johnson and George Blanton Allen 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.
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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