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The Sara Giles Moore Foundation at a glance

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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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.4MYouth Development$1.9MHealth$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.5MAnimals$1.4MHuman Services$955kPhilanthropy$725kEmployment$650kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA$550,000
THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$520,000
CHRIS 180$500,000
ZOO ATLANTA$500,000
BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE$225,000
PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY$200,000
PARK PRIDE$125,000
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$125,000
BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM$115,000
ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY$100,000
GATEWAY CENTER$100,000
NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS$100,000
NICHOLAS HOUSE$75,000
UNITED WAY FOR GREATER ATLANTA$75,000
CAMP TWIN LAKES$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 13%CHRIS 180: $75k → 13%CHRIS 180: $50k → 13%BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC: $50k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 13%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $5k → 13%CHRIS 180: $500k → 13%CHRIS 180: $500k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $100k → 13%CHRIS 180: $75k → 13%BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC: $50k → 13%BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC: $50k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $50k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 13%BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC: $10k → 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 100% of The Sara Giles Moore Foundation’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, 0%.

The Sara Giles Moore Foundationlessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 50 repeat orgs$685k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
17

Total granted

$16M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+43%

Still filing today

64%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +23%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
  • PP
    Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $670k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • GS
    GEORGIA SCHOOL BASED HEALTH CENTER FUND(EMORY UNIVERSITY)
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • K
    KIPP
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES (BEN MASSELL DENTAL CLINIC)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc
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4
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
5
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
6
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
7
The African Diasporic Art Museum of Atlanta Inc

to showcase contemporary art and culture of the African Diaspora

Arts & Culture
8
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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9
Invest Atlanta Partnership Inc

To serve atlanta, georgia, by providing quality economic and community development resources to underserved residents in a culturally competent, fiscally responsible, and ethical manner.

Housing & Shelter
10
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

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,…

Human Services
11
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Crime & Legal
12
Center for Civic Innovation Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated; 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.
05the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZOO ATLANTA: $1,200,000 · OtherZOO ATLANTAPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $670,000 · OtherPiedmont Park Conservancy IncFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ATLANTA: $529,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ATLANTAHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $425,000 · OtherHistoric Oakland Foundation IncUNITED WAY OF METRO ATLANTA: $308,000 · OtherBREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM: $305,000 · OtherBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · OtherATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC: $350,000 · Other+35 more: $2,749,600 · Other+35 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $2,743,500 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $550,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN…THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA OPERA INCTHE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $197,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $155,000 · Arts & CultureCHRIS 180 INC: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 I…JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICA…+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gi…HORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS …THE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $250,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Crime & LegalPARK PRIDE INC: $350,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $250,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsINSPIREDU INC: $650,000 · EducationREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$6,836,600Arts & Culture$4,466,500Human Services$1,690,000Youth Development$1,475,000Crime & Legal$950,000Recreation & Sports$875,000Education$675,500

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: $2,743,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $1,200,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,200,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $670,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetINSPIREDU INC: $650,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $550,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $500,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $425,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC: $350,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $350,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $275,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $260,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAgape Community Center: $250,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $250,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $220,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $197,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRAZER CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $90,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY INC: $65,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $37,350 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPeachtree Battle Alliance Neighborhood Improvement: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $500 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.

  • 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 Agape Community Center ↗
  • Who funds TRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRAZER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Nicholas House Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗

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 …The Community Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainGeorgia Power Foundat…The Zeist Foundation …The Sartain Lanier Fa…The Waterfall Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananUnited Way of Greater…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Arthur M Blank Fa…THDF II Inc DBA The H…
The Imlay Foundation IncGA48.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sara Giles Moore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sara Giles Moore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.

    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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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