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The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Inc

To enable and empower african americans and others to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$1.4MCommunity Improvement$380kEducation$226kHealth$80kArts & Culture$60kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$20kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IGNITE YOUR BUSINESS LLC$20,000
A BETTER TODAY BOOKS & BOUTIQUE$20,000
HD SCREENING AND LABORATORY$20,000
FRUITEA BUBBLES CAFE INC$20,000
RESULTZ ONLY FITNESS$20,000
COFFEE SNOBS LLC$20,000
Br8k THRU SUPPORT SERVICES INC$20,000
EVERFUND LLC$20,000
NICHOLAS PARKS dba LONELESS WOLF$20,000
BLACKMAN REALTY GROUP$20,000
WIGGLE GIGGLE$20,000
PREPPING FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY LLC$20,000
3 KOOL KINGS$20,000
TEAM MINDSHIFT LLC$20,000
WELL CONNECTED FUNDING$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $453k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $50k → 14%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $13k → 14%Future Successors: $50k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $50k → 13%YOUTHSPARK INC: $50k → 13%GIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INC: $50k → 13%KIDKONG ASSOCIATION INC: $40k → 13%LEAD INC: $50k → 13%THE BELOVED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA: $50k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of The Urban League of Greater Atlanta 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.

The Urban League of Greater Atlanta 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 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.

1
Simply Girls Incorporated

Serve girls 6-16 through Afterschool and summer enrichment programs. Providing mentorship and encouragement for all girls.

Youth Development
2
Culture Shift Inc

Culture Shift, Inc focuses on providing tutoring, mentoring, and training to GA students and familes

Education
3
SocialSocietyU Inc

To empower youth and young adults through educational programs mentorship and career development opportunities supporting their personal and professional growth in underserved communities.

Education
4
Mothers Raising Sons Inc Tm

Mothers Raising Sons, Inc. mission: Establish the Needs Educate Minds Enthuse Godly Talents, Gifts & Abilities Empower Purposes MRS provides proper guidance for positive family structure and the children with the foundation, structure and…

Youth Development
5
Thrive Academy Atlanta Inc

Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…

Education
6
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
7
Blueprint 4 Kids Incorporated

501c3

Human Services
8
Mentoring Young Minds

Mentoring Young Minds inspires, educates and empowers youth with a focus on academic, social-emotional skills and physical activites through mentoring, leadership, and life skills development, while building relationships with positive…

Youth Development
9
Motivated and Empowered Inc

To empower and equip girls and boys facing systemic barriers to realize their full potential through educational resources, mentorship, leadership development, and community support. Motivated and Empowered Inc. provides holistic support,…

Youth Development
10
Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc

To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
11
Integrity Mentors

Integrity Mentors is a youth and family mentoring organization that actively develops youth while providing guidance and leadership support to their parents. Integrity Mentors is more than a supplemental kids' program. It is a platform…

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12
Stem Gems Inc

STEM Gems is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building a stronger, more inclusive STEM pipeline by empowering girls and young women of all backgrounds to explore, pursue, and excel in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Beloved Community Development Corporation Inc. 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 15 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%3%<5yr17%28%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr8%14%35–55yr9%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%4%<5yr17%27%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr8%15%35–55yr9%5%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
21%
3,183/15,040

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

28 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. 28 of the 63 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $225,728 · OtherATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLSBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc — $50,000 · OtherAAMBC AFRICAN AMERICANS ON THE MOVE BOOK CLUB INC — $49,500 · OtherKIDSGYM USA INC — $40,979 · Other+34 more — $681,690 · Other+34 moreFUTURE SUCCESSORSINC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE SUCCESSORSINCBELOVED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED COMMUNITY DEVELOP…MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INCUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUSHER'S NEW LOOK INCGIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INCCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of…LEAD INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INCyouthSpark Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesyouthSpark IncPage Turners Make Great Learners Inc — $44,960 · Human ServicesPage Turners Make Great L…KIDKONG ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesKIDKONG ASSOCIATION INC+1 more — $12,500 · Human Services3D Girls Incorporated — $55,000 · Youth Development3D Girls Inco…BLUEPRINT 58 INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLUEPRINT 58 …HORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS ATLA…NOBLE TRUTH PROJECT INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNOBLE TRUTH P…NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT GENERATI…MUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC EDUCATION GROUP INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSilence the Shame Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDRAWCHANGE INC — $19,850 · Arts & CultureTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $50,000 · EducationPROPEL ATL INC — $40,000 · EducationAgape Community Center — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In the Streets Inc — $49,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,047,897Human Services$497,460Youth Development$255,000Arts & Culture$169,850Education$140,000Recreation & Sports$99,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget3D Girls Incorporated — $55,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAgape Community Center — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLUEPRINT 58 INC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MUSIC EDUCATION GROUP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetSilence the Shame Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNOBLE TRUTH PROJECT INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetLEAD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetyouthSpark Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc — $49,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPage Turners Make Great Learners Inc — $44,960 over 1y, 13% of budgetKIDSGYM USA INC — $40,979 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBlack Man Lab Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDRAWCHANGE INC — $19,850 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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 Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …United Way of Greater…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Power Foundat…Luluma Charitable Tru…THDF II Inc DBA The H…The Zeist Foundation …The Sartain Lanier Fa…Annie E Casey Foundat…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Waterfall Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA34.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc

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 Urban League of Greater Atlanta 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 63 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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