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The Sandy Springs Society Inc

The Sandy Springs Society is a charitable organization of women dedicated to improving the quality of life in Sandy Springs by supporting nonprofits in our community.

$382k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$562kFood & Nutrition$288kRecreation & Sports$282kArts & Culture$213kHealth$136kYouth Development$131kHuman Services$127kHousing & Shelter$127kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $331,540 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $382,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,460 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $272k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS NINOS PRIMERO$17,500
SANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE$17,000
SANDY SPRINGS MISSION$16,000
CHILDRENS DEVELOPMENT ACAD$16,000
SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS$16,000
HORIZONS ATLANTA$15,500
SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON$15,000
CITY SPRINGS THEATRE$15,000
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CTR$15,000
CAMPBELL STONE NORTH APTS$14,000
FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON$12,000
RIVERWOOD ICS BAND$11,500
GEORGIA ENSEMBLE THEATRE$11,500
SANDY SPRINGS POLICE FUND$10,000
TENNIS FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES: $13k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE DCB COMPLEX: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE DCB COMPLEX: $10k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS POLICE FUND: $10k → 13%MARY HALL FREEDOM VILLAGE: $10k → 13%MARY HALL FREEDOM VILLAGE: $10k → 13%MARY HALL FREEDOM VILLAGE: $10k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS POLICE FUND: $10k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS POLICE FUND: $10k → 13%EVERY WOMAN WORKS: $7k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON: $15k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON: $15k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON: $10k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON: $10k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON: $10k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF N FULTON: $8k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON: $12k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON: $12k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON: $10k → 13%SER FAMILIA: $6k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $18k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $18k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $16k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $15k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $12k → 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 28 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+10%

Still filing today

79%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +48%
  • SS
    Sandy Springs Mission Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $111k · revenue +23%
  • SS
    SANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • FC
    FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • RL
    RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +40%
  • FA
    FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +2%

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
The Sandy Springs Society Inc

The Sandy Springs Society is a charitable organization of women dedicated to improving the quality of life in Sandy Springs by supporting nonprofits in our community.

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2
South Fulton Senior Services Inc

To provide a range of services and activities which promote wellness and self-sufficiency for adults sixty years of age and older.

Human Services
3
Street Smart Youth Project Inc

Street Smart Youth Project programs are designed to help at-risk youth and young adults identify their personal strengths and take control of the thoughts and feelings that drive high-risk behavior.

Crime & Legal
4
Hands on Atlanta Inc

We mobilize the Atlanta community to tackle our city's most pressing needs.

Philanthropy
5
Simple Needs Ga Inc

Simple Needs GAs mission is to meet the simple needs of children and people experiencing homelessness and others in need, while inspiring our community to do the same.

Human Services
6
Dyslexia Network Forsyth County
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7
Feeding the Homeless Project Inc

Feeding homeless individuals in Downtown Atlanta.

Food & Nutrition
8
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
9
Every Student Every Community Inc

Redefined atlanta engages communities, advocates for equity, and funds critical work to drive systemic level improvement in k-12 public education for students and families.

Education
10
Sage School Inc

To enable students with average to above average intelligence with learning difficulties in the areas of reading, organization, language processing, and written expression to reach their maximum academic potential.

Education
11
Family Promise of Forsyth County Inc

The mission of family promise of forsyth county is to empower and assist families experiencing or facing homelessness or housing insecurity to achieve long-term stability through a community-based response. our core values of engaging our…

Human Services
12
Bradley Academy Inc

Our vision is to develop well rounded confident and responsible humans who aspire to achieve their full potential through educational resources..We will do this by providing a welcoming happy safe and supportive learning environment in…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandy Springs Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lion Pride. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Stability and Youth …Affordable Housing Developm…Family FoundationsEarly Childhood Education C…Business & Economic Develop…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Recreation & Spor…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%5%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr8%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%2%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr8%2%55yr+

The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/50
the rest of the field
22%
2,243/10,410

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 51 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SANDY SPRINGS HISTORIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $218,275 · OtherTHE SANDY SPRINGS HISTORIC COMMUNITY FOUNDA…COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $167,034 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INCSANDY SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $50,737 · OtherSANDY SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATIONGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $40,000 · OtherTENNIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $36,055 · OtherPrevent Blindness Georgia — $34,500 · OtherLION PRIDE — $27,500 · Other+15 more — $176,515 · Other+15 moreSandy Springs Mission Inc — $110,900 · Human ServicesSandy Springs Mission…SENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $94,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES NORTH…FAMILY PROMISE OF FULTON COUNTY INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF FUL…SANDY SPRINGS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND — $30,000 · Human ServicesSANDY SPRINGS POLICE …Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesMary Hall Freedom Vil…FRIENDS OF BENSON INC — $28,525 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BENSON INCEVERY WOMAN WORKS INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesEVERY WOMAN WORKS INCFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF — $12,610 · Human Services+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesHORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $166,816 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS ATLANTA INCLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC — $91,833 · Youth DevelopmentLOS NIOS PRIMERO INCLaAmistad Inc — $58,500 · Youth DevelopmentLaAmistad IncBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBE THE VOICE INC — $15,600 · Youth DevelopmentSANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC — $100,500 · EducationSANDY SPRING…SPARTAN NATION INC — $61,000 · EducationSPARTAN NATI…Riverwood High School Foundation Inc — $26,500 · EducationRiverwood Hi…U HOPE CDC INC — $12,000 · EducationU HOPE CDC I…READING IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL PEOPLE — $9,000 · Education+1 more — $5,800 · EducationSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC — $88,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HE…SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC — $60,833 · Food & NutritionSOLIDARIT…RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC — $14,000 · Food & NutritionRESCUING …City Springs Theatre — $72,500 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY — $11,500 · Arts & CultureART SANDY SPRINGS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTREES ATLANTA INC — $24,000 · EnvironmentSANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY — $6,000 · EnvironmentKEEP NORTH FULTON BEAUTIFUL INC — $5,200 · Environment
Other$750,616Human Services$366,035Youth Development$350,749Education$214,800Food & Nutrition$162,833Arts & Culture$94,000Environment$35,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SANDY SPRINGS HISTORIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $218,275 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $167,034 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $166,816 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSandy Springs Mission Inc — $110,900 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSANDY SPRINGS EDUCATION FORCE INC — $100,500 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES NORTH FULTON INC — $94,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC — $91,833 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC — $88,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCity Springs Theatre — $72,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPARTAN NATION INC — $61,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC — $60,833 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLaAmistad Inc — $58,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Georgia — $34,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF FULTON COUNTY INC — $34,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSANDY SPRINGS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetMary Hall Freedom Village Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BENSON INC — $28,525 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetRiverwood High School Foundation Inc — $26,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetACT 3 PRODUCTIONS INC — $24,880 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC — $23,860 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC — $23,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEVERY WOMAN WORKS INC — $20,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBE THE VOICE INC — $15,600 over 3y, 11% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCampbell-Stone North Apartments Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF — $12,610 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetART SANDY SPRINGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSpalding Charter School Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetREADING IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL PEOPLE — $9,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC — $8,200 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Drake House Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRidgeview Charter Middle School Foundation Inc — $5,800 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSER FAMILIA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…United Way of Greater…Couchman & Noble Foun…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Sartain Lanier Fa…The Scott Hudgens Fam…The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainJewish Federation of …Epstein Family Founda…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA40.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Couchman & Noble Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Epstein 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 Sandy Springs Society 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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.

    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 51 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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