· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHRIST COVENANT | $10,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HEY LADY INC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- APATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -68%
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITY - ADDICTION ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds SEWN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
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- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The O Wayne Rollins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O Wayne Rollins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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