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The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation at a glance

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The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher 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.

$89k
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $89k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’20
13
’21
18
’22
18
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$365kArts & Culture$168kEducation$34kInternational$34kHealth$32kReligion$32kCivil Rights$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k23 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$14,500
ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY$12,500
THE TEMPLE$11,350
THE BREMAN JEWISH MUSEUM$10,000
WOODRUFF ART CENTER$5,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$5,000
THE HOWARD SCHOOL$5,000
ALLIANCE THEATRE$5,000
PMC THE JIMMY FUND$3,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$2,000
SKYLAND TRAIL$2,000
JEWISH HOME LIFE COMMUNITIES$1,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GEORGIA$1,000
MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUNDINC: $500 → 14%BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUNDINC: $100 → 14%RESPITE CARE ATLANTA: $250 → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $100 → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 57% of The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 43%.

The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 21 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
23

Total granted

$279k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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
    4× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +62%
  • AJ
    ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +128%
  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BREMAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH FILM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Morehouse School of Medicine

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…

Education
2
Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

Agsiw's central mission is to provide expert research and analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of the gulf arab states and how they impact how they impact u.s. and gulf domestic and foreign policy. to accomplish this…

International
7
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
8
The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc

The weber school prepares its students for success in college and in life, inspiring them to be knowledgeable, thinking, responsible jewish adults, by weaving together: the pursuit of academic excellence; a commitment to jewish values, the…

Education
9
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

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.

Health
10
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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11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Piedmont Hospital Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gateway Center Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $334,744 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $28,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE TEMPLE: $27,000 · OtherTHE TEMPLETHE BREMAN JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherTHE BREMAN JEWISH MUSEUMALLIANCE THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherALLIANCE THEATREWOODROFF ART CENTER: $15,000 · OtherWOODROFF ART CENTERGOIZUETA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER: $14,485 · OtherGOIZUETA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE…THE BREMAN MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherTHE BREMAN MUSEUMPMC THE JIMMY FUND: $8,600 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH FILM SOCIETY: $6,000 · OtherGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Other+29 more: $46,082 · Other+29 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $42,750 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOOD…ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA JEWIS…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTO…+2 more: $3,300 · Arts & CultureMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $33,500 · InternationalThe Howard School Inc: $17,500 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $2,200 · EducationThe George Washington University: $2,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Civil RightsJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $8,260 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$364,744Other$178,167Arts & Culture$86,050International$33,500Education$28,200Civil Rights$10,000Housing & Shelter$8,260

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $334,744 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $42,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $33,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard School Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $8,260 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFernbank Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Atlanta Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $250 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.

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 Rich Foundation I…Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Shearon and Taylo…Hertz Douglas J Famil…The Coca-Cola Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Rich Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rich Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Shearon and Taylor Glover Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Thomas and Spring Savitt Asher Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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