· Community foundation
The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia
Helping catholics with faith-inspired giving and legacy planning while stewarding funds for the long-term sustainability of the catholic organizations in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 103 grants below total $5,634,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,001,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $367,376 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $265k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $957k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $2,150,000 |
| Archdiocese of Atlanta | $516,311 |
| St Pius X Catholic High School | $403,450 |
| Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc | $277,530 |
| St Vincent de Paul Georgia | $158,600 |
| St Jude the Apostle Catholic School | $143,500 |
| Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School | $118,500 |
| St Thomas More Catholic School | $89,200 |
| Holy Spirit Catholic Church | $83,900 |
| St Michael Catholic Church | $75,600 |
| Cathedral of Christ the King | $65,268 |
| St Peter Claver Regional Catholic School | $65,140 |
| St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church | $63,900 |
| St John the Evangelist Catholic School | $52,000 |
| My Sister's Place | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
106 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
Southern Methodist University4× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +39%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +65%
- CHCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD2× · 2018–2021 · $515k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- LOLEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $100k
- CNCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR EDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +52%
- HFHOME & FAMILY INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $76k
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.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's hospital is a member of trinity health georgia and trinity…
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's sacred heart hospital is a member of trinity health georgia…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…
Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia and the most unlike its peers is Familiar Hearts Animal Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 179 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Outreach Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Monsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE OF GAINESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Patterson Family Foundation Inc · The Goizueta Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Gift of Hope 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 Catholic Foundation of North Georgia 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.