The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

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The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

Q: How much did The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc grant in FY2024?

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc reported 1,414 itemized grants totaling $152,286,499, out of $173,251,322 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Q: Where is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc based?

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc is based in GA.

Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation.

$173M

Granted FY2024still arriving

1,414

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$18M

Largest

01What you fund

0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$286MHealth$120MPhilanthropy$101MHuman Services$73MArts & Culture$67MEnvironment$46MCommunity Improvement$41MCivil Rights$34MAnimals$25MOther$282M

02FY2024 · 1414 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1,414 grants below total $152,286,499 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $173,251,322 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,964,823 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 · FY2024

Under $10k203 grants · $1.4M
$10k–50k776 grants · $15M
$50k–250k349 grants · $35M
$250k+86 grants · $101M

$21,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND	$17,915,313
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC	$8,323,466
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC	$6,829,829
EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION	$6,549,900
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC	$5,768,258
EMORY UNIVERSITY	$3,168,950
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION	$3,092,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	$3,010,584
REDEFINED ATLANTA	$2,869,900
THE CONSERVATION FUND	$2,510,000
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC	$1,740,675
PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND	$1,530,000
WESLEYAN SCHOOL	$1,422,500
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN	$1,357,160
PARTNERS FOR HOME	$1,322,350

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $48.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$945M · 1545 repeat orgs$66M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

1545 repeat relationships — 923 still active in FY2024, 622 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1545

318

Total granted

$945M

$58M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+14%

Still filing today

82%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

GM
GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
5× · 2017–2023 · $70M · revenue +80%
ES
EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $46M · revenue +485% · 100% of their budget
AA
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $45M · revenue +92% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue +29%
CM
CJF MINISTRIES
one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
MC
MORGAN COUNTY CHARTER SCHOOL SYSTEM
one grant, 2017 · $1.9M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

Upgrade & advance the atlanta metro area in population, commerce & finance; effect civic & social improvements; better quality of life in the community; & promote integrity in business.

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The Atlanta Chapter the American Institute

To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.

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Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter

Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

At goodwill of the coastal empire (dba goodwill southeast georgia), we believe every individual should be given the opportunity to achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.

Employment

The Community Foundation for Greater

To inspire and lead our region toward equity and shared prosperity for all.

Philanthropy

Global Impact Investing Network Inc

Increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet.

Philanthropy

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Georgia tech research corporation advances research and technological development at georgia tech as it continually seeks to advance society and the global competitiveness of georgia and the nation. gtrc supports and promotes research…

Health

Atlanta Association of Legal

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Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

Acfb charitable investments, 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.

Food & Nutrition

Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large

Health

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brad Keselowskis Checkered Flag. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%81/3,491

the rest of the field

20%

10,897/54,810

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.

04the grantee network

1686 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. 1686 of the 2,000 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.

216

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

457

Early backer (in before they grew)

1626/1686

Grantees still filing

1184/1686

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$241,930,485Health$97,943,797Philanthropy$85,051,669Other$207,842,106Arts & Culture$37,046,389Environment$34,814,628Human Services$33,677,497

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Imlay Foundation IncGA180.5× affinity242 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · The Sartain Lanier Family 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines