· Private foundation
The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPARD CENTER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $125,000 |
| REINHARDT UNIVERSITY | $105,000 |
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $80,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS | $40,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $25,000 |
| GILGAL INC | $25,000 |
| WELLSPRING LIVING INC | $20,000 |
| HELP THE PERSECUTED | $15,000 |
| HOPE HEALS | $15,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADMEY | $15,000 |
| MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- WAWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +136%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $560k · revenue ×15 · 58% of their budget
- COCITY OF REFUGE8× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- HPHERITAGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k
- PFPATH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -7%
- MSMILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%
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.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
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.
Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…
At lifegate counseling center at peachtree, our vision is to foster an environment in which lives are transformed, relationships are reconciled and hope is found. we offer a vast array of faith-sensitive physotherapeutic services and…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
Miracle farm provides an environment for christ to forge young men of integrity who are firmly connected to the sense of security, acceptance, and significance that comes from an identity in christ.
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.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds GILGAL INC ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds JULIES DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Back the Blue Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES COBB INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ATLANTA 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: 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
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 Evelyn and Frank Gordy 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.