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The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$972k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$15MHealth$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.6MArts & Culture$1.7MYouth Development$1.7MHuman Services$1.1MRecreation & Sports$707kCrime & Legal$613kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
6
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$971,946
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS$366,341
EMORY UNIVERSITY$275,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC$150,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$100,000
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
PATH FOUNDATION$100,000
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$80,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$75,000
SER FAMILIA INC$50,000
WHITEFIELD ACADEMY$50,000
KIPP METRO ATLANTA SCHOOLS$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO ATLANTA$50,000
GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC$50,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA$50,000
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROMISE686: $25k → 9%PROMISE686: $20k → 9%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $20k → 14%PROMISE686: $20k → 9%PROMISE686: $20k → 9%PROMISE686: $20k → 9%PROMISE686 INC: $20k → 9%SER FAMILIA INC: $50k → 8%SER FAMILIA INC: $40k → 8%GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY: $30k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $25k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $25k → 14%REIMAGINE ATL: $20k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $20k → 14%REIMAGINE ATL: $20k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $15k → 14%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $20k → 14%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS: $20k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $40k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $33k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $33k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $30k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $30k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $15k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $15k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $33k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $33k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $33k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $20k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $20k → 13%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $30k → 13%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $15k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $20k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $15k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $15k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $15k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $15k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $15k → 13%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $15k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $25k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $25k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 97% 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 3% — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 137 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

137 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
56

Total granted

$27M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $720k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 +65%
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +43%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $885k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $373k
  • EU
    EMORY UNIVERSITY WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $334k
  • EB
    EMORY BRAIN HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k

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.

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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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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
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
4
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
5
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
6
Georgia Cyber Academy Inc

Provide exemplary individualized/engaging education by incorporating school/community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum within a data-driven and student-centered instructional model.

Education
7
Friends School of Atlanta

The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…

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8
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
9
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School Inc

To level the playing field for refugee and new american students by empowwering them.

Education
10
City Academy of Atlanta Inc

City academy of atlanta, inc. believes that discipling our own children is best accomplished within a community of likeminded families on mission together. our purpose is to serve the family through offering a model of deliberate…

Education
11
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Georgia Softgoods Education Foundation. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%1%<5yr18%9%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr8%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%1%<5yr18%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr8%27%35–55yr8%28%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/169
the rest of the field
22%
3,487/15,894

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.

05the grantee network

166 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. 166 of the 211 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/166
Grantees still filing
111/166
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vanderbilt University — $7,111,391 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityThe Westminster Schools Inc — $2,192,917 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncAtlanta Speech School Inc — $560,000 · Education+40 more — $4,227,166 · Education+40 moreUAB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY — $1,416,666 · OtherUAB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT …EMORY MEDICINE WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — $583,000 · OtherEMORY MEDICINE WOODRUFF HEALTH SCI…TEACH FOR AMERICA - METRO ATLANTA — $525,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - METRO ATLANTAEMORY UNIVERSITY WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — $334,000 · Other+95 more — $6,459,597 · Other+95 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $1,557,400 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $683,333 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD …Philanthropy Southeast Inc — $143,670 · Philanthropy+5 more — $166,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $885,318 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureAtlanta Shakespeare Company Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INC — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $190,000 · Arts & CultureMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $166,666 · Human ServicesBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesPromise686 Inc — $125,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA — $100,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solutions Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesCANINE ASSISTANTS INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesREIMAGINE ATL — $40,000 · Human Services+4 more — $75,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentLaAmistad Inc — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERS OUTREACH LLC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLOSE TIES LEADERSHIP PROGRAM — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL GIRLS INC — $30,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $300,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN — $100,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC — $100,000 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · HealthHillside Inc — $60,000 · HealthGEORGIA PREVENTION PROJECT INC — $40,000 · HealthNO LONGER BOUND INC — $33,333 · HealthASCENSA HEALTH INC — $30,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $30,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · Health
Education$14,091,474Other$9,318,263Philanthropy$2,700,403Arts & Culture$1,820,318Human Services$1,196,666Youth Development$840,000Health$765,333

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University — $7,111,391 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $2,192,917 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $1,557,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $885,318 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $683,333 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc — $560,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc — $445,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $277,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC — $233,333 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc — $230,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC — $210,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC — $210,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $190,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetODYSSEY INC — $185,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $185,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $166,666 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Scholarship Academy Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetNEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $145,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc — $143,670 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $143,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC — $140,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLaAmistad Inc — $135,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC — $135,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetPromise686 Inc — $125,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $115,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $110,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $110,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA — $110,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC — $110,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSTAR C CORPORATION — $105,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSER FAMILIA — $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 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.

  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Kindezi School Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Scholarship Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION 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.

The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Tull Charitable Found…Georgia Power Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTw Marian W Ottley At…The Zeist Foundation …The Waterfall Foundat…Fraser-Parker Foundat…AEC TrustJohn H & Wilhelmina D…
The Imlay Foundation IncGA114.4× affinity56 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 · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · AEC Trust · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
74report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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

Find your warmest path to The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 211 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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