· Public charity
The Halle Foundation
THE HALLE FOUNDATION seeks to promote international peace and understanding, knowledge, and friendship between the people of germany, as seen in its european context, and those of the united states.
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.
The 29 grants below total $2,017,275 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,133,406 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,131 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $275,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $177,404 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $169,400 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $154,594 |
| THE ATLANTA OPERA INC | $125,000 |
| GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES | $115,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN INC | $93,780 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $93,662 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC | $91,542 |
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $84,200 |
| AMERICAN GERMAN INSTITUTE | $83,300 |
| DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $80,924 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUCKE EV FOUNDATION INC | $80,000 |
| GERMAN CULTURAL CENTER GOETHE-ZENTRUM | $60,084 |
| GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your 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 19% of The Halle 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, 73% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 51% — 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 +46% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
- CVCULTURAL VISTAS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $743k · revenue +7%
- GAGERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $517k · revenue +15%
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $516k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the Goethe-Institut in Washington DCone grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -83% · 81% of their budget
- AEATLANTA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $45k
- CHCommunity Health Aligning Revitalization Resilience & Sustainabilityone grant, 2022 · $36k
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…
We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
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.
Georgia independent college association, inc ("gica") supports private higher education in georgia in the areas of public policy, increased public awareness, fund raising for student financial aid, and collaborative projects, in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Center for International Studies 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 55 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 CULTURAL VISTAS INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds American-German Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GOETHE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF GERMANINC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Boy Choir Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for International Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ATLANTIK-BRUECKE EV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of West Georgia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IFYE ASSOCIATION OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM & ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Community Health Aligning Revitalization Resilience & Sustainability ↗
- Who funds German Studies Association ↗
- Who funds The Waldorf School of Atlanta ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Institute for Educational Advancement Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · American Chemical Society · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ernst & Young 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 Halle 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.
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