· Private foundation
The Lookout Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $691k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBILE CITIZENS | $135,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILLLOOKOUT FELLOWS | $110,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - PEACHTREE SCHOLAR | $60,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| UNC - INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND HUMANI | $50,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $45,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| MTOTO AFRICA INC | $37,570 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| LEAP YEAR | $35,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $35,000 |
| DUKE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
80 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k 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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $507k · revenue +351%
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +51%- TWThe Westminster Schools Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SOSCHOOL OF MEDIA JOURNALISM FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BCBUCKHEAD CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $35k
- UCUNC CHAPEL HILL - IFFOCone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
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…
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.
Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 178 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 INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LEAP YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MTOTO AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ELITE WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE ↗
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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation
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 Lookout 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.
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% 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.