· Private foundation
The O Wayne Rollins 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 $10k19 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+4 grants · $39M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $28,996,414 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $5,037,589 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $4,971,336 |
| YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE | $352,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA | $64,640 |
| ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND | $20,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CHRIST COVENANT | $10,000 |
| HEY LADY INC | $10,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA MINISTRY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $7,000 |
| ROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF FINCA 6 | $4,800 |
| ANTIOCH CEMETERY TRUST CORPORATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 14 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- EUEmory University5× · 2019–2024 · $76M · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +30%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $5.5M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITY - ADDICTION ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- APATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -68%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Drew charter school educates, nurtures and empowers all students to achieve their full potential as part of an exemplary, innovative, and equity-centered community.
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…
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 provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…
King's Ridge Christian School is a Christian community providing a college preparatory education equipping students to know, to serve, and to believe.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odyssey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Antioch Cemetery Trust Corporation. 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 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 103 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds SEWN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSLEYS PLACE 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · Bennett Thrasher Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Aaron's Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Whitcomb Family Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua
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 O Wayne Rollins 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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