How much did THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Food & Nutrition$1.1MInternational$1.0MScience & Tech$240kEducation$225kHuman Services$140kEnvironment$70kYouth Development$60kHealth$40kArts & Culture$10kOther$1.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

atlanta

2022

educationlearningunderservedstudentsscienceatlanta

2023

treegardenhealthysystemequitable foodsnap ebteducation

2024

gardenhealthysystemequitable foodsnap ebteducationlearning

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$250k+3 grants · $1.8M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$750,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$750,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$250,000
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC$200,000
MATHMATICAL ASSOC OF AMERICA$100,000
HORIZONS ATLANTA$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER$10,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE$5,000
GEORGIA ORGANICS$5,000
WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA$5,000
WYLDE CENTER$5,000

02The need

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 (FY22–23, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 26% of THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF FOUNDATION’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, 32% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 16 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$720k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+74%

Still filing today

81%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEducationEnvironmentScience & TechArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +5%
CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA
2× · 2022–2023 · $140k · revenue +41%

Funded once

SF
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE
one grant, 2023 · $250k
W
WABE
one grant, 2023 · $160k
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +18%

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.

Environmental Fund for Georgia Inc

EarthShare Georgia connects people to trusted not-for-profit organizations dedicated to protecting our air, land and water.

Environment

Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…

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Georgia Youth Science and Tech Cent

Promote interest and enthusiasm in science and the technologies, particularly among elementary and middle school teachers and youth in the state of georgia

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Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

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.

Education

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Georgia tech research corporation advances research and technological development at georgia tech as it continually seeks to advance society and the global competitiveness of georgia and the nation. gtrc supports and promotes research…

Health

Green Science Policy Institute

Our mission is to facilitate safer use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. we educate and build partnerships among government, business, academia, and public interest groups to develop innovative solutions for reducing…

Environment

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL), equips faith communities across the state of Georgia to Care for Creation through worship, education, and the stewardship of natural resources.

Environment

Georgia Center for Oncology Research and

To develop, implement, and evaluate programs that improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, and organization of cancer care and research in Georgia.

Health

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institutes mission is to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians.

Public Benefit

West Georgia Youth Science and Technology Center

Provides quality programs for teachers of STEM subjects that improve the teaching and learning process at the kindergarten through eighth grade levels.

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Georgia School Nutrition Assoc

Provide continuing education to members in the area of school nutrition.

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Georgia Appleseed Inc

The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to increase justice in Georgia through law and policy reform and community engagement.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for Science & the Public. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

13/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,620,000Food & Nutrition$1,120,000International$1,010,000Science & Tech$240,000Education$225,250Human Services$140,000Environment$70,000

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 582357438 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The John and Mary Neff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John and Mary Neff Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John and Mary Neff Foundation?

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THE JOHN AND MARY NEFF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John and Mary Neff Foundation?

More from the funding graph