· Private foundation
The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of The Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlant | $100,000 |
| Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ann | $50,375 |
| The Shepherd Center | $50,000 |
| Dunwoody Nature Center | $50,000 |
| Warrick Dunn Family Foundation | $50,000 |
| Andee's Army Inc | $50,000 |
| Rotary District 6900 | $50,000 |
| Wellroot Family Services | $10,000 |
| Hellenic College Holy Cross School | $10,000 |
| United Way of Greater Atlanta | $10,000 |
| The Georgia Lions Lighthouse Founda | $10,000 |
| Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund | $10,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Atl | $10,000 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Fo | $5,000 |
| Forsyth Central Band | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- AAANDEE'S ARMY5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +1%
- CCChristian City Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +151%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $187k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TATHE ATL TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -5%
- DCDiakonia Centerone grant, 2020 · $50k
- GOGREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to offer a citywide network of quality health and human services to the medically underserved regardless of race, ethnic background or ability to pay.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Andee's Army. 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 42 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Ronald and Vicki Canakaris Family 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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.