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The Nell & William Elkin Mem Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$575kHealth$330kHuman Services$192kRecreation & Sports$125kCrime & Legal$100kScience & Tech$75kEnvironment$60kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN$50,000
CONNALLY JORDAN AND ASSOCIATES PC$50,000
PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY$50,000
GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT$45,558
THE STUDY HALL$35,000
GRANT PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA$25,000
RAISING EXPECTATIONS$25,000
ETHNE HEALTH$4,752
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 9%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $42k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Spelman College

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.

Education
2
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
3
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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4
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
5
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Georgia

Through the time, talent, and resources of corporate, education, and community partners, Junior Achievement of Georgia inspires and prepares young people, K-12th grade, to succeed in a global economy. All programs align with Georgia's…

International
7
Georgia Appleseed Inc

The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…

Civil Rights
8
The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education
9
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
10
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
11
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The georgia tech applied research corporation (gtarc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance and economic development.

Health
12
Atlanta Historical Society Inc

Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%0%<5yr18%10%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr8%52%35–55yr8%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%0%<5yr18%9%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr8%45%35–55yr8%24%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
22%
3,487/16,032

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA OF GREATER ATLANTA — $100,000 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER ATLANTAAG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta — $100,000 · OtherAG Rhodes Health & Rehab AtlantaGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF — $90,420 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OFGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 · OtherGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INCTHE STUDY HALL INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE STUDY HALL INCPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc — $50,000 · OtherPiedmont Park Conservancy IncCONNALLY JORDAN AND ASSOCIATES PC — $50,000 · OtherCONNALLY JORDAN AND ASSOCIATES PCCRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INCHERITAGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherHERITAGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $45,558 · OtherGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INCMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $42,092 · Other+6 more — $129,922 · Other+6 moreBENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · EducationBENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACA…BERRY COLLEGE INC — $75,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationGeorgia State Univers…CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCLAYTON STATE UNIVERS…MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $25,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF M…RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $25,000 · EducationRAISING EXPECTATIONS …Agape Community Center — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsGrant Park Conservancy Inc — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsREADSOURCE INC — $50,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 · HealthLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC — $10,000 · HealthETHNE HEALTH INC — $4,752 · HealthAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentEARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$852,992Education$305,000Recreation & Sports$125,000Health$114,752Philanthropy$103,700Environment$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated — $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC — $70,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAgape Community Center — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $45,558 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $42,092 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrant Park Conservancy Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOBIS WORKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $4,922 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHNE HEALTH INC — $4,752 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Tull Charitable Found…The Coca-Cola Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTw Marian W Ottley At…James M Cox Foundatio…AEC TrustThe Arthur M Blank Fa…United Way of Greater…John H & Wilhelmina D…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA36.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · AEC Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 Nell & William Elkin Mem Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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