· Private foundation
The Kelin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE KELIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $1,100,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $1,046,924 |
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $210,000 |
| GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $131,250 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $110,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER ATLANTA | $105,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| CHASTAIN PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $83,333 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $62,500 |
| GSGA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| RUSSELL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $50,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $50,000 |
| PATH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +116%- ASAgnes Scott College9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +56%
- WFWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CFCharitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -59%
- TGTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +161%
- AFALEXANDER-THARPE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $31k
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…
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.…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
The georgia tech foundation real estate holding corporation was formed to hold title to real estate and similar property on behalf of the georgia tech foundation, inc., and for other purposes permitted under section 501(c)(2) of the…
Acec georgia champions the business of engineering by driving impactful public policy advocacy, delivering unmatched business development opportunities, empowering member firms with essential business resources, providing future-focused…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 136 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 GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GSGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Kindezi School Inc ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds OUT TEACH ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Charitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald 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 Kelin 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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