· Private foundation
The Gould Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE THEATER | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST | $25,000 |
| ZOO ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| HANDS ON ATLANTA | $15,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $12,000 |
| GEORGIA AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| BMT INFONET | $10,000 |
| LETS GET READY | $10,000 |
| BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION NMDP | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA ORGANICS | $7,500 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +74%
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC5× · 2018–2022 · $250k · revenue +23%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CICommunities in Schools of Atlanta Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
- CGCOOL GIRLS INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -4%
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.
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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 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 34 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 ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD & MARROW TRANSPLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds COOL GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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 Imlay Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · J B Fuqua Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 Gould Family Foundation Inc 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.