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The Rich Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$783kRecreation & Sports$553kCrime & Legal$435kCivil Rights$383kCommunity Improvement$375kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.9M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$150,000
ATLANTA EDUCATIONAL FOR WABE$100,000
ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC$100,000
ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION$100,000
GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$100,000
JEWISH HOME LIFE COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
CAMP TWIN LAKES$100,000
THE TEMPLE-HEBREW BENEVOLENT$100,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$100,000
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$100,000
YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC$100,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$100,000
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$75,000
HILLSIDE INC$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $930k) 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 its 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%RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC: $35k → 13%CHRIS 180: $50k → 14%CHRIS 180: $10k → 14%CHRIS 180: $10k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $10k → 14%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 13%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $30k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $25k → 14%KATE'S CLUB INC: $10k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $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: $50k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $25k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of The Rich Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 89%.

The Rich Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 61 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
43

Total granted

$12M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

85%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +62%
  • AS
    Atlanta Speech School Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $581k · revenue +37%
  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $461k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +170%
  • YO
    YMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TA
    THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
4
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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5
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
6
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
7
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
8
Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc
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9
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
10
Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta

Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.

Community Improvement
11
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sweet Auburn Works. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/99
Grantees still filing
52/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $325,000 · OtherATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION INHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $325,000 · OtherHistoric Oakland Foundation IncATLANTA EDUCATIONAL FOR WABE: $300,000 · OtherATLANTA EDUCATIONAL FOR WABEGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH: $255,000 · OtherTHE TEMPLE-HEBREW BENEVOLENT: $202,500 · OtherATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $205,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $182,500 · OtherATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC: $210,000 · Other+50 more: $3,219,000 · Other+50 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CEN…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $461,375 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY…Fernbank Inc: $375,000 · 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: $188,375 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF A…ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $165,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $230,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreAtlanta Speech School Inc: $581,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech Sch…Clark Atlanta University Inc: $375,000 · EducationClark Atlanta Univ…The Howard School Inc: $275,000 · EducationThe Howard School …The Kindezi School Inc: $250,000 · EducationThe Kindezi School…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUND…Meridian Education Resource Group Inc: $100,000 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC: $75,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $75,000 · Education+7 more: $147,500 · Education+7 moreFAMILIES FIRST INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesODYSSEY FAMILY COUNSELING CENTERIN: $45,000 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC: $35,000 · Human Services+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $562,500 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $75,000 · HealthHillside 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 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $31,210 · Philanthropy+2 more: $27,500 · PhilanthropyCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $600,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,224,000Arts & Culture$3,294,750Education$2,233,500Human Services$930,000Health$887,500Philanthropy$808,710Recreation & Sports$680,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $1,450,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $600,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $581,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $562,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $461,375 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $375,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFernbank Inc: $375,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $325,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $325,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe Howard School Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $205,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: $188,375 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $182,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $165,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNOBIS WORKS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC: $130,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $125,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMeridian Education Resource Group Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSWEET AUBURN WORKS: $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCAPACITY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $85,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUT OF HAND THEATER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHillside Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLITERACY ACTION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rich Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rich Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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