· Private foundation
The Medlin-Hale Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON | $20,000 |
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS | $8,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON | $5,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| OLD SALEM | $4,000 |
| ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP | $3,261 |
| GPB | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| WABE | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Medlin-Hale Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +13%- NANEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +167%
- CRCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SASWEET AUBURN WORKSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +34%
- CCChristian City Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -38%
- FRFIRST REPHIDIM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
The Conservancy's mission is to restore, enhance, maintain and preserve Chastain Park through the implementation of its 20-year Master Plan. With one eye on Chastain Park's glorious past and another on its promising future, the Conservancy…
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.…
Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…
To enhance and preserve Piedmont Park as a vital, urban green space and as a cultural and recreational resource that enriches the quality of life for all Atlantans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is South River Watershed Alliance. 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 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 68 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 THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET AUBURN WORKS ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds OLD SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds PATH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HORSESHOE FARM ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST 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 · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The 2492 Fund Howell · The Davis Foundation · The Kelin Foundation · Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation 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 Medlin-Hale Foundation Inc 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% 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.