How much did THE SARTAIN LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Education$12MPhilanthropy$2.6MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$688kCrime & Legal$685kYouth Development$680kRecreation & Sports$638kEnvironment$398kOther$10M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

children's healthcarehealthcare atlantabobbygrantmakerssoutheastern foundationsmetropolitan atlantaway greater

2019

healthcaregolfhealthchattahoocheeachievement

2020

ministryneighborhoodatlanta covidcovid responseresponse recoveryeverysoutheastern foundations

2021

corporationeveryatlanta covidcovid responseresponse recoveryneighborhoodsoutheastern foundations

2022

policyemorymedicineachievement

2023

theatreleadershipblackemoryvoices georgia'sgeorgia's childrenachievement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k62 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k23 grants · $1.5M
$250k+3 grants · $1.6M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$97M

Total assets

Largest grants

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$971,946
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS$366,341
EMORY UNIVERSITY$275,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC$150,000
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$100,000
PATH FOUNDATION$100,000
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$80,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$75,000
ATLANTA CLASSICAL ACADEMY$50,000
CORNERS OUTREACH INC$50,000
READING IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL PEOPLE INC$50,000
WHITEFIELD ACADEMY$50,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - METRO ATLANTA$50,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER$50,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 83% of THE SARTAIN LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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, 71% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE SARTAIN LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 141 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

141 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141

Total granted

$29M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+28%

Still filing today

71%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +33%
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THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +100%
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ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL
7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +18%

Funded once

EU
EMORY UNIVERSITY WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $334k
EB
EMORY BRAIN HEALTH CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $250k
3N
3DE NATIONAL LLCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +28%

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.

Atlanta Association of Legal

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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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Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

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.

Education

Greater Atlanta Christian Schools Inc

To help each student grow as jesus did, in wisdom and stature, and in favor with god and man.

Education

The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education

Every Student Every Community Inc

Redefined atlanta is a growing collective of civic leaders and philanthropists dedicated to transforming atlanta into a place where every child in every community receives a great k-12 public education. to realize this vision, redefined…

Education

Leadership Atlanta Inc

Educational programs to discuss & research social, political, economic & matters of metro areas.

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Atlanta Land Trust Inc

TO DELIVER AND STEWARD PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING to support inclusive, equitable communities near the Atlanta beltline and other targeted areas in the city of atlanta.

Housing & Shelter

Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc

Our mission at Girls Incorporated of Greater Atlanta (GIGA) is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our programs are evidence-based, aligned with the national Girls Incorporated evaluations, and tailored to meet the unique…

Youth Development

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Georgia tech research corporation advances research and technological development at georgia tech as it continually seeks to advance society and the global competitiveness of georgia and the nation. gtrc supports and promotes research…

Health

Georgia Economic Development

The foundation functions as an advocate of economic development for the state of georgia.

Community Improvement

Arts Critic Atl Inc

Arts atl is a non-profit organization that promotes a healthy and vibrant arts community in metro atlanta.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University. 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 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/143

the rest of the field

18%

2,918/15,920

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.

06the grantee network

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

141/142

Grantees still filing

108/142

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$12,365,974Other$11,908,153Philanthropy$2,620,013Arts & Culture$1,285,318Human Services$1,181,666Health$688,333Crime & Legal$685,000

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.

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 Foundation for GreaterGA112.8× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland · AEC Trust · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald 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 organisation THE SARTAIN LANIER 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~260 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201238224 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 260 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SARTAIN LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc?

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THE SARTAIN LANIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph