· Private foundation
The Rockdale Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
- $250k+1 grant · $477k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL YOUTH AWARENESS FORUM | $476,741 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS METRO ATL | $75,000 |
| EDUCAID | $60,000 |
| WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA | $10,000 |
| GRANDMOTHER PROJECT INV | $10,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| THE SILKROAD PROJECT INV | $9,590 |
| PARTNERS IN CHANGE | $7,500 |
| PHOENIX PASS | $7,500 |
| PATH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CONYERS ROCKDALE COUNCIL FOR ARTS | $5,000 |
| ONE HUNDRED MILES | $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 US giving — 22% of grant dollars ($1.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 78% that went abroad ($5.4M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $111k) 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
Beyond the US — 78% of all-years giving ($5.4M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +51%
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +66%
- OUOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $150k
- RSRESTORATION STOREHOUSEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- UUNICEFone grant, 2018 · $54k
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 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.…
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…
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…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
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.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brett Works Inc. 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 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 123 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED CONTENT INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDMOTHER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc
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 Rockdale 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.
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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