· Private foundation
The Dees 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHU | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NE GA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOFFORD COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $201k · revenue +52%- KAKAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +215%
- IAIMPACT100 ATLANTA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CSCity Springs Theatregraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue ×14
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +35%
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.
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Focus on finding a cure for okur-chung neurodevelopmental syndrome and ensuring individuals have the opportunities and support necessary for happy and full lives.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds City Springs Theatre ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ART SANDY SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISAKSON INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dees Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dees Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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