How much does The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc give?

The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $1,669,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (20%), Human Services (15%).

Who are The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emory University ($1.8M), The Lovett School Inc ($805k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($700k).

Does The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc based?

The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc is based in GA.

The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc

The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.0MHealth$2.1MHuman Services$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$835kRecreation & Sports$595kArts & Culture$445kFood & Nutrition$363kInternational$308kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k13 grants · $328k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Emory University	$300,000
Lovett School	$200,000
Childrens Healthcare Of Atl	$100,000
Frederica Academy	$100,000
Shepherd Center Foundation	$100,000
Wake Forest University	$75,000
Canine Assistants	$60,000
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing	$56,000
Camp Twin Lakes	$50,000
The Rotary Foundation	$50,000
Live Like London Foundation	$50,000
Chastain Horse Park	$50,000
American Red Cross	$50,000
Camp Sunshine	$50,000
Good Samaritan Health Ctr	$50,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10.0M · 42 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10.0M

$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+21%

Still filing today

83%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

EU
Emory University
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +80%
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THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +60%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +46%

Funded once

TM
The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of G
one grant, 2024 · $150k
TG
THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +35%
GE
GPC EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +17%

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.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health

The Grady Health Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy

Piedmont Hospital Inc

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.

Health

Georgia Hospital Association

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…

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Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

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.

Health

Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health

Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education

Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health

The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health

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

Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health

Morehouse School of Medicine

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

35/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,930,000Other$2,621,500Human Services$1,686,500Health$901,000Recreation & Sports$595,000Philanthropy$590,000International$308,000

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.

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 IncGA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martha And Wilton Looney Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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