· Private foundation
The Lassiter Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $180,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $108,500 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $85,000 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM | $56,000 |
| CFWNC | $35,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FDTN | $25,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $12,500 |
| ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL BSA | $10,000 |
| MISSION HOPE | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +15% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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; $30k 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
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +245%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +25%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- DHDRUID HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WBWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITEDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -6%
- IIIREST INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $8k
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 make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
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.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mad Hatter Farm. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 64 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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOPE ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Liberia Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LaAmistad Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS 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 Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · Patrick Family Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation · The Garner Foundation · The H Foundation · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · The Imlay 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 Lassiter Family Charitable 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.