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The Inman 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 $10k16 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA | $25,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| RESPITE CARE OF ATLANTA | $3,500 |
| WESTMINSTER CLASS OF 1959 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $2,500 |
| FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| JACKSON HOLE HOUSING TRUST | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SWAN COACH HOUSE | $1,750 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $1,000 |
| HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue +13%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +107%
- HBHighlands Biological Foundation Inc4× · 2018–2023 · $33k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NCNC COMMUNITY FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- HOHistoric Oakland Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Education, K-5 through 12th grade
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…
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…
Forsyth Country Day School is a private, college preparatory independent school for preschool through high school. Students benefit from a challenging academic curriculum, fine and performing arts, competitive athletics, and a wide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odyssey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Visual Art Library 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Historical Society ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds St Helena Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION 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 · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Woodcrest Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Ira C Herbert Family Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Leona S Hudson Charitable Foundation · Thomas C & Ann L Webster Charitable Foundation · The Britton 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 Inman 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.
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