· Private foundation
The Choate Foundation (Fka Choate Bridges Foundation)
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $893k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $583k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $500,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| STREET GRACE | $100,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FATHER RYAN HIGH SCHOOL | $57,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $50,000 |
| SAINT BERNARD ABBEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| RESTORE LIFE | $50,000 |
| NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CITY | $50,000 |
| THE FURNITURE BANK | $37,500 |
| ANGEL ARMIES INC | $37,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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
- SGStreet Grace Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +52%
- RLRESTORE LIFE INCORPORATED4× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +51%
- NFNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- GPGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +67%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $163k
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY (MILITARY VETS)one grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
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…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.
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.
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 create safe and stable homes and families by inspiring the fight for equal justice.
Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…
Empower, educate, and equip kinship caregivers with tools and resources to provide safe, stable homes and keep children out of foster care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Argentine Tango 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 28 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
145 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. 145 of the 199 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Street Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORE LIFE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Outreach Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERS OUTREACH LLC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RON CLARK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALD RIDGE LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds FURKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Bennett Thrasher 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 Choate Foundation (Fka Choate Bridges Foundation) 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.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Leon County Humane Society — 0% of income from government
- V for Victory of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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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