· Private foundation
The Tharpe Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $2,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAM CHURCH | $2,000 |
| EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE INC | $1,165 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FDN | $1,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE JOY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| GRACE MARIETTA CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TIGERS UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BLUE SKY | $1,000 |
| KENYAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| KANSAS STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- DSDarlington School Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +46%
- JHJoy House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +0%
- LFLighthouse Family Retreat Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +50%
- BRBETHANYS REST INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 65 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 Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Joy House Inc ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Prodigal Child Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMESTRETCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANYS REST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tharpe 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.