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The Go Big Red 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $351,000 |
| ZADIE PROJECT | $26,000 |
| CHASTAIN PARK CONSERVANCY | $24,000 |
| SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Go Big Red Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $776k · revenue +70%
- SSSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +53%
BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- ERELIM ROMANIAN PENTECOASTAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $30k
Southern Methodist Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +37%- HAHOPE ATLANTA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +121%
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
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…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Global Village Project Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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 8% 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.
32 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. 32 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ZADIE PROJECTINC ↗
- Who funds CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HOPE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOAP PROJECT SAVE OUR ADOLESCENTS FROM PROSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds EDMUND BURKE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS OF ADDICTED LOVED ONES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED 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 · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · V' Al Kol Yisrael Foundation Inc · Ira C Herbert Family Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Go Big Red 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.