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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.

$823k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.8MReligion$698kHealth$637kYouth Development$276kPhilanthropy$250kHuman Services$177kArts & Culture$159kCommunity Improvement$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $273k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SHEPHERD CENTER$25,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$25,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FDTN$25,000
UNITED WAY$25,000
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$12,500
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DISASTER ASSISTANCE$10,000
BILL MANESS GOOD SAMARITAN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $4k → 26%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $4k → 26%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $4k → 26%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $4k → 26%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $3k → 26%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 18%SUSTAINABLE LIBERIA: $20k → 14%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 18%SUSTAINABLE LIBERIA: $10k → 14%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 18%SUSTAINABLE LIBERIA: $10k → 14%SUSTAINABLE LIBERIA: $10k → 14%SUSTAINABLE LIBERIA: $3k → 14%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 12%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $20k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $5k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $5k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $5k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
IN
CT
CA
CO
KY
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 51 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
10

Total granted

$4.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-6%

Still filing today

61%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AR
    ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +245%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • WB
    WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • DH
    DRUID HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • II
    IREST INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
7
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

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.

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8
Global Scholars

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.

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9
Greenville College

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.

Education
10
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

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…

Education
11
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
12
Spelman College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $499,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FDTN: $335,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FDTNTHE SALVATION ARMY: $130,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNITED WAY: $125,000 · OtherUNITED WAYCFWNC: $85,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $85,000 · OtherTHE ORCHARD: $68,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $125,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+30 more: $528,688 · Other+30 morePRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $1,455,000 · Housing & ShelterPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $53,950 · EducationLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $35,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $20,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $125,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $105,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthFernbank Inc: $71,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $50,500 · Arts & CultureThe Bascom Corporation: $24,500 · Arts & CultureWYLDE CENTER INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMISSION HOPE: $106,250 · ReligionMIO Frontiers: $22,500 · ReligionKIDZ2LEADERS INC: $15,000 · ReligionPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER: $12,500 · ReligionINDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC: $10,000 · ReligionSustainable Liberia Inc: $52,500 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHORNWELL: $20,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesHighlands Community Child Development Center: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,980,688Housing & Shelter$1,455,000Education$266,450Health$250,000Arts & Culture$176,500Religion$166,250Human Services$139,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $1,455,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOPE: $106,250 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFernbank Inc: $71,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $53,950 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSustainable Liberia Inc: $52,500 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $50,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetThe Bascom Corporation: $24,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNWELL: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIDZ2LEADERS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER: $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHighlands Community Child Development Center: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIVABLE BUCKHEAD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THORNWELL ↗
  • Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA28.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lassiter Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lassiter Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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