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.

Where is The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation based?

The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation is based in GA.

The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation

The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$810k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6MHealth$1.2MReligion$751kHuman Services$457kHousing & Shelter$103kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kYouth Development$59kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k15 grants · $245k
$50k–250k6 grants · $560k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTER	$15,000
EAGLE RANCH	$15,000
ATLANTA YOUTH ACADMEY	$15,000
HOPE HEALS	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.6M · 31 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+24%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

WA
WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +136%
SC
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $560k · revenue ×15 · 58% of their budget
CO
CITY OF REFUGE
8× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +55%

Funded once

HP
HERITAGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $50k
PF
PATH FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +7%
MS
MILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%

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.

04Its field

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.

Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services

The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services

Augusta Rescue Mission

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…

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Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

Hope Atlanta Inc

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.

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Families First Inc

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…

Human Services

Lifegate Counseling Center At Peachtree Inc

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…

Health

Georgia Agape Inc

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…

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Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

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…

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Miracle Farm Inc

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.

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Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,500,412Religion$635,000Philanthropy$560,000Education$475,000Health$330,250Human Services$263,250Crime & Legal$55,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA38.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home