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The Rich Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$783kRecreation & Sports$553kCrime & Legal$435kCivil Rights$383kCommunity Improvement$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$150,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$105,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
ATLANTA EDUCATIONAL FOR WABE$100,000
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$100,000
PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
THE TEMPLE-HEBREW BENEVOLENT$100,000
CAMP TWIN LAKES$100,000
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$100,000
GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS$100,000
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH$55,000
ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $810k) 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.

area typical 9%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $34k → 13%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $33k → 13%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $33k → 13%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $30k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $25k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $25k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 14%CHRIS 180: $50k → 14%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 13%CHRIS 180 INC: $10k → 14%CHRIS 180: $10k → 14%CHRIS 180: $10k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $25k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $10k → 14%KATE'S CLUB INC: $10k → 14%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $25k → 13%ODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $20k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%VI AND MILTON WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $10k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $100k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $50k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $25k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $25k → 13%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Rich 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, 100% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Rich Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 57 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
34

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +62%
  • AS
    Atlanta Speech School Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $581k · revenue +37%
  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $375k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +88%
  • HW
    HENRY W GRADY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • AT
    ALLIANCE THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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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2
Leadership Atlanta Inc

It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…

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3
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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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
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
6
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
7
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
8
Horizons Atlanta Inc

Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.

Youth Development
9
Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc
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10
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
11
The Atlanta Chapter the American Institute of Architects Inc

To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.

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12
Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Julia Helen Smith Scholarship Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%2%<5yr18%5%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr8%39%35–55yr8%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%1%<5yr18%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr8%35%35–55yr8%36%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/89
the rest of the field
22%
3,487/15,974

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.

05the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
48/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CE…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $361,375 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIET…Fernbank Inc — $300,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank IncTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA OPERA INCNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL…THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $135,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $240,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $325,000 · OtherHistoric Oakland Foundation IncGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH — $255,000 · OtherGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTHATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN — $225,000 · OtherATLANTA EDUCATIONAL FOR WABE — $200,000 · OtherTHE BREMAN MUSEUM — $160,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $182,500 · OtherATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $160,000 · OtherMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 · OtherNOBIS WORKS INC — $150,000 · Other+42 more — $2,436,500 · Other+42 moreAtlanta Speech School Inc — $581,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech Schoo…Clark Atlanta University Inc — $375,000 · EducationClark Atlanta Univer…The Howard School Inc — $275,000 · EducationThe Howard School In…The Kindezi School Inc — $250,000 · EducationThe Kindezi School I…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDAT…Georgia State University Foundation Inc — $100,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC — $100,000 · EducationMeridian Education Resource Group Inc — $100,000 · EducationTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC — $75,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $75,000 · Education+6 more — $122,500 · Education+6 moreFAMILIES FIRST INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTERIN — $45,000 · Human Services+2 more — $35,000 · Human ServicesPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $552,500 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $75,000 · HealthTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC — $65,000 · HealthDDD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Health+4 more — $60,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc — $25,590 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,661,375Other$4,244,000Education$2,203,500Human Services$810,000Health$802,500Philanthropy$653,090Recreation & Sports$550,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc — $581,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $552,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $500,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $375,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $361,375 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $325,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFernbank Inc — $300,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Howard School Inc — $275,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN — $225,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC — $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $182,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNOBIS WORKS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $135,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC — $130,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $125,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET AUBURN WORKS — $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPACITY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetMeridian Education Resource Group Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society — $85,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY ACTION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC — $65,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDDD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGEORGIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Imlay Foundation …Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananUnited Way of Greater…Tw Marian W Ottley At…AEC TrustThe Waterfall Foundat…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…The Arthur M Blank Fa…
The Imlay Foundation IncGA84.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · AEC Trust · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 Rich 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Rich Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rich Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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