· Private foundation
The Busy Tree Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $925k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH POINT MINISTRIES | $600,000 |
| GRACEPOINT SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $200,000 |
| US LBM FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT | $125,000 |
| EAST COBB CHURCH CO NORTH POINT MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| MOUNT PARAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| BROWNS BRIDGE CHURCH | $50,000 |
| REFUGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PROMISE686 | $20,000 |
| RESTORE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $15,000 |
| MARY'S MEALS | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Busy Tree Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLighthouse Family Retreat Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $580k · revenue +47%
- GSGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $530k · revenue +63%
- RFREFUGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- BCBUCKHEAD CHURCH CO NORTH POINT MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Our mission is to counter human trafficking and provide holistic restoration: at home and around the world.
Religious Purposes
Religious
Missions.me empowers people to change the world. whether it is introducing a street orphan to their new home, leading a nation in a prayer of reconciliation, offering medical relief to the suffering, or hosting large missions teams,…
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds US LBM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds Promise686 Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds R E S T O R MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Busy Tree Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Busy Tree Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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