· Private foundation
The Ma-Ran 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $206k
- $250k+13 grants · $43M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $7,511,586 |
| LOVETT SCHOOL | $6,050,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $6,000,000 |
| LIFT YOUTH CENTER | $5,031,945 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $4,971,236 |
| ROLLINS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (TRCDC) | $4,223,936 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $3,208,213 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $2,038,595 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,669,414 |
| BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,008,064 |
| PEACHTREE RD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $551,310 |
| CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC | $538,388 |
| LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA | $56,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of your 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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M 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
- BMBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +44% · 53% of their budget
- EUEmory University6× · 2019–2024 · $12M · revenue +54%
- TLTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +53%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500k
- ARAG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlantaone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +11%
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.
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…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
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 Cook Museum of Natural Science. 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 49 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM 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 · Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundation · Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Ma-Ran 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% 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.
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