· Private foundation
The Sara Giles Moore Foundation
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA | $550,000 |
| THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $520,000 |
| ZOO ATLANTA | $500,000 |
| CHRIS 180 | $500,000 |
| BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE | $225,000 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $125,000 |
| PARK PRIDE | $125,000 |
| BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM | $115,000 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $100,000 |
| NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS | $100,000 |
| ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY | $100,000 |
| NICHOLAS HOUSE | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR GREATER ATLANTA | $75,000 |
| ATLANTA OPERA | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.7M) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Sara Giles Moore Foundation’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 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +23%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
- PPPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $670k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- GSGEORGIA SCHOOL BASED HEALTH CENTER FUND(EMORY UNIVERSITY)one grant, 2023 · $150k
- KKIPPone grant, 2019 · $100k
- OCOAKLAND CEMETERYone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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…
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…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
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.…
to showcase contemporary art and culture of the African Diaspora
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…
To serve atlanta, georgia, by providing quality economic and community development resources to underserved residents in a culturally competent, fiscally responsible, and ethical manner.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.
The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Peachtree Battle Alliance Neighborhood Improvement. 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 40 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds INSPIREDU INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds THE FRAZER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Nicholas House Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE 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 Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
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 Sara Giles Moore Foundation 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.