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The Gary W Rollins Foundation at a glance

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The Gary W Rollins 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.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$5.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$42MPhilanthropy$9.4MAnimals$6.5MHuman Services$6.3MCommunity Improvement$5.7MHousing & Shelter$4.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.5MArts & Culture$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $817k
  • $250k+11 grants · $17M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION$5,629,870
EMORY UNIVERSITY$2,831,289
SALVATION ARMY$1,950,618
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$1,522,133
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$1,499,327
FOLDS OF HONOR$994,245
LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC$851,702
SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND$516,964
VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION$403,759
ATLANTA MISSION$252,131
CH COOLIDGE NTL MDL HONOR HERITAGE$250,288
OPERATION HOME FRONT$249,144
TEAM RUBICON INC$101,488
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC$100,409
BELOIT COLLEGE$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND: $517k → 13%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $506k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $852k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $600k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $481k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $65k → 13%ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $50k → 13%ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $20k → 13%ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $10k → 13%ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $10k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $100k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $100k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $89k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $50k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $50k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH & ADVOCACY CENTER: $20k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH & ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
NE
TN
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61M · 36 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
20

Total granted

$61M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +45%
  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +49%
  • AH
    Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $275k
  • CH
    CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +86%
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.

1
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
2
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
9
Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity Inc

Alpha chi omega makes a promise to empower each member to become the best version of herself. the real. strong. women. experience delivers on this promise by providing an environment where members take on the issues and challenges that…

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10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Mustard Tree Foundation Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $21,558,448 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGAZOO ATLANTA: $3,352,858 · OtherZOO ATLANTAVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION (VEO): $2,600,800 · OtherVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION (VEO)SALVATION ARMY: $1,950,618 · OtherSALVATION ARMYATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,599,133 · Other+35 more: $3,357,337 · Other+35 moreROLLINS COLLEGE: $13,126,174 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $5,629,870 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDAT…Emory University: $2,996,460 · EducationEmory UniversitySTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,001,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $994,245 · Education+4 more: $218,500 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,138,579 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …GREENLIGHT FUND INC: $394,881 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGH…OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $299,144 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $2,052,255 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $1,997,968 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $1,022,735 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $389,000 · Human Services+2 more: $125,000 · Human ServicesHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $3,652,820 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $2,850,743 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $110,409 · Philanthropy+3 more: $196,000 · PhilanthropyAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $3,042,721 · Animals+1 more: $55,000 · Animals
Other$34,419,194Education$23,966,249Community Improvement$6,882,604Human Services$5,586,958Housing & Shelter$3,661,820Philanthropy$3,157,152Animals$3,097,721

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $13,126,174 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,138,579 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $5,629,870 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $3,652,820 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $3,042,721 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetEmory University: $2,996,460 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $2,850,743 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $2,052,255 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $1,997,968 over 3y, 13% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,599,133 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $1,022,735 over 2y, 18% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,001,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $994,245 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA: $403,759 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $394,881 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $389,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $299,144 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED OF GOD'S SHELTER INC: $127,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $110,409 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNSORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $101,488 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC: $90,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $56,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCobb Collaborative Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Outreach and Advocacy Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFernbank Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Community Center: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ATLANTA GA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOMELESS SHELTER ACTION COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSerenity House of Atlanta Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Hospital Woman's Auxiliary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…THDF II Inc DBA The H…United Way of Greater…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …The Arthur M Blank Fa…McKesson Foundation I…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Mightycause Charitabl…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA25.2× affinity11 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 · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Mightycause Charitable 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 Gary W Rollins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gary W Rollins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to The Gary W Rollins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gary W Rollins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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