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The Elizabeth Price Dolvin 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Elizabeth Price Dolvin Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Athens Area Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Elizabeth Price Dolvin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $330k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UGA FOUNDATION - TERRY COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| ATHENS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE INC | $20,000 |
| ATHENS COUNSEL ON AGING | $20,000 |
| OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN TRUST FOR PARKS AND LAND | $20,000 |
| ATHENS LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| SPARROWS NEST MISSION CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
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.
Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.
The mission and purpose of the organization is to provide food, supplies and clothing to families, children and senior adults living in food insecurity in athens/clarke county georgia and surrounding areas at no cost to the recipients.
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
The pantry purchases, collects and monthly distributes nutritional food and personal care items for individuals and families in the community with no discrimination as to age, gender, marital status, religious or political affiliation,…
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.
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
To collaborate with others to eliminate substandard, overcrowded and unsafe housing in Glynn County by building simple, safe, decent and affordable homes. To improve housing conditions through home construction, rehabilitation, repairs,
To provide the interest of home and other real property ownership and to further provide a unified medium for those engaged in the real estate profession.
Just Bakery of Atlanta partners with our neighbors who resettled as refugees through paid job training, professional certification, and living wage work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bread for Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 ATHENS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN TRUST FOR PARKS & LAND INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC ↗
- Who funds OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Terrell Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Elizabeth Price Dolvin 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.
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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