· Private foundation
The Jals Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP | $35,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHAMPIONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA | $7,500 |
| COMERS OUTREACH | $7,500 |
| ZOO ATLANTA | $5,340 |
| FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| GIDEON'S PROMISE | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BEARINGS BIKE WORKS | $5,000 |
| CRISTO REY ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF REFUGEES | $5,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 20 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- ASAtlanta Speech School Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $53k · revenue +37%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +22%
- PAPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- APATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -72%
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- AVATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION INone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -12%
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.
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…
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 mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
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.
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.…
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
New american pathways is an atlanta based nonprofit with the mission of helping refugees and georgia thrive.
InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
To increase student attendance and opportunities for success through legal and family advocacy.
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Kind of the Upstate. 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 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 123 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 Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Works Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds LEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Champions Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SUITS FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LaAmistad Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIND OF THE UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Central Outreach and Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Soccer In the Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUL CHANGERS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Incarceration Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERS OUTREACH LLC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Richard C Munroe 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 Jals Family 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.