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The Imlay Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k113 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $2,000,000 |
| EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| HILLSIDE INC (HILLSIDE ATLANTA FOUNDATION) | $100,000 |
| MARY HALL FREEDOM VILLAGE INC | $100,000 |
| RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN CRESCENT SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $80,000 |
| DDD FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| MOSAIC HEALTH CENTER INC | $75,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $75,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC | $70,000 |
| WELLSPRING LIVING INC | $65,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC | $65,000 |
| GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE | $60,000 |
| SADIE G MAYS HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER | $60,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $60,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.8M) 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.
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 Imlay Foundation Inc’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, 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
250 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- TATHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +155%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +23%
- AHATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $725k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- VPVARIOUS PUBLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $4.9M
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC - CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- HOHISTORIC OAKLAND BELL TOWERone grant, 2022 · $900k
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.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.
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.…
InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
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…
Provide victims of crime with comprehensive services for the successful transition of victim to survivor.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Johnson Stem Activity Center 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 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
362 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. 362 of the 535 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOMMY NOBIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Actors Express Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS NIOS PRIMERO INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA THEATRE 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: Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · AEC Trust · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family 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 Imlay 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.
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