· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNC - INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND HUMANI | $50,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $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 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
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.…
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 178 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lookout Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lookout Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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