· Private foundation
The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family 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.
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 $10k39 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $101,000 |
| CARE USA | $29,500 |
| SKAGIT COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $27,200 |
| UGA FOUNDATION - STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $26,000 |
| NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY FOR EMORY LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION-SNSIA | $10,000 |
| MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HIST MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CSIS | $2,125 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND INC | $2,000 |
| GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| TEENS AT WORK | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $4k) 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 18 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +37%
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +214%- NTNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $102k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- EOENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACEone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -17%
- DMDEKALB MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GTGLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -38%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To engage in charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes and to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of georgia institute of technology (git) and to support its…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saranac Lake Civic Center Inc. 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 34 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 143 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 ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RAIZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Shearon and Taylor Glover Foundation Inc · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Turner Foundation Inc · Emory University · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Goddard 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 Colleen & Sam Nunn Family 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.
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.