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The Harriett McDaniel Marshall Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$479k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$400kEducation$356kArts & Culture$316kReligion$263kHuman Services$231kEnvironment$200kCommunity Improvement$175kYouth Development$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN$100,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$100,000
PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS METRO ATLANTA$50,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER$50,000
THE LOVETT SCHOOL$50,000
FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA$46,036
MCDANIEL TICHENOR HOUSE$31,444
GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT$1,879
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $106k) 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.

area typical 9%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $46k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $25k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $25k → 13%HOUSEPROUD ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$705k · 4 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
31

Total granted

$705k
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-7%

Still filing today

75%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +62%
  • PP
    Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc
    2× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +182%
  • MI
    MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -77%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -26%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY METRO
    one grant, 2024 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
4
Cathedral Towers Inc

Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.

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5
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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6
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…

Environment
7
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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8
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
9
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc

Atlanta habitat for humanity transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families.

Housing & Shelter
10
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
11
University Community Development Corporation

To marshal resources to realize actionable plans for community development on behalf of the westside atlanta area in order to create a vibrant, prosperous, sustainable and equitable community that enhances the quality of life for current…

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12
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ddd 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.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%0%<5yr18%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr8%43%35–55yr8%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%0%<5yr18%6%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%41%20–35yr8%31%35–55yr8%19%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
22%
3,487/16,032

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $429,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY METRO — $150,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY METROWABE — $100,000 · OtherWABEPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc — $75,000 · Other+24 more — $749,151 · Other+24 moreWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationWESLEYAN S…Georgia State University Foundation Inc — $100,000 · EducationGeorgia St…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE LOVETT…+1 more — $6,000 · EducationSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD C…CITY OF REFUGE — $250,000 · ReligionCITY OF RE…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe McDaniel Tichenor House Inc — $31,444 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTREES ATLANTA INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 · EnvironmentGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,503,951Education$256,000Philanthropy$250,000Religion$250,000Arts & Culture$206,444Environment$200,000Community Improvement$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY OF REFUGE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY HOUSING SOUTHEAST — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDDD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChristian City Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $24,239 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $12,516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSEPROUD ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $1,879 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Imlay Foundation …The Sartain Lanier Fa…The Waterfall Foundat…THDF II Inc DBA The H…Publix Super Markets …Fraser-Parker Foundat…J Bulow Campbell Foun…Tull Charitable Found…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA33.3× affinity15 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 · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation 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 Harriett McDaniel Marshall Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harriett McDaniel Marshall Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Harriett McDaniel Marshall Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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