Georgia · Private foundation
The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $810k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $810k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $700k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $450k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $420k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $418k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $600k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $595k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitefield Academy Inc | $735,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $560,000 | 7 | 58% |
| City of Refuge | $515,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Reinhardt University | $465,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Feed My Lambs Inc | $365,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Wellspring Living Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gilgal Inc | $72,750 | 5 | 3% |
| Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc | $67,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Soma Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · J Bulow Campbell Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation with peer funders
About The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation
- How much does The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation give?
- The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $810,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (25%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Whitefield Academy Inc ($735k), Shepherd Center Foundation Inc ($560k), City of Refuge ($515k).
- Does The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia.
- Where is The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation based?
- The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation is based in GA.
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