· Private foundation
The J Donald Childress 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 $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| LINKS PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| EASTSIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT | $2,500 |
| THE SCHENCK SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
Washington and Lee University8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +15%- TWThe Westminster Schools Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +43%
- KMKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc2× · 2017–2020 · $265k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- UAUTMD ANDERSONone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ST AUSTINone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- MDM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $250k
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 south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To create and inspire a diverse community of independent thinkers whose academic excellence, global perspective, and strength of character prepare them to make a meaningful difference in the world.
An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
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.
Carolina prep is a school for preschool through primary formed to build a diverse, positive, stimulating learning environment which values excellence in academics, leadership, and service.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Joseph Hospice Foundation. 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 44 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.
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 45 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 Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Links Players International Inc ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Gerard House ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE 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 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 J Donald Childress 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.