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The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$569kHealth$545kEducation$463kHousing & Shelter$335kArts & Culture$330kRecreation & Sports$235kYouth Development$235kEnvironment$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $650k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA$50,000
IGNATIUS HOUSE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER$40,000
TRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT$35,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER$35,000
USHER'S NEW LOOK$35,000
CLUBHOUSE ATLANTA$35,000
THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC$35,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHT$35,000
JEWISH HOMELIFE$30,000
MUST MINISTRIES$30,000
CAFE MOMENTUM ATLANTA$30,000
GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT$30,000
GROVE PARK FOUNDATION$30,000
DUNWOODY NATURE CENTER$30,000
PATH FOUNDATION$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $503k) 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%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $25k → 13%ANDREW P STEWART CENTER: $25k → 13%CHRIS 180: $50k → 14%GEORGIA WORKS: $50k → 13%OPEN DOORS: $50k → 13%MUST MINISTRIES: $38k → 13%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $35k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $30k → 13%CARING WORKS: $30k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $30k → 13%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 13%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $30k → 13%MUST MINISTRIES: $30k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $25k → 13%PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $25k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$570k · 8 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
80

Total granted

$570k
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +737%
  • TR
    THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +6%
  • MM
    Must Ministries Inc
    2× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PP
    PARK PRIDE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +170%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER ATLANTA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • C1
    CHRIS 180 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
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.

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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
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
3
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
4
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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5
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
6
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
7
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
8
Horizons Atlanta Inc

Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.

Youth Development
9
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
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
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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12
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc

Atlanta habitat for humanity transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
44/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC+54 more: $1,771,000 · Other+54 moreMust Ministries Inc: $67,500 · Human ServicesMust Ministries…CHRIS 180 INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INCGeorgia Works Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works I…Open Doors Solutions Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solu…USHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesUSHER'S NEW LOO…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PA…CaringWorks Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesCaringWorks IncCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in …UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIS…AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAI…NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC: $60,000 · HealthCLUBHOUSE …THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE GOOD S…COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC: $40,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY …Hillside Inc: $30,000 · HealthHillside I…Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse: $25,000 · HealthSide by Si…CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · HealthCLARKSTON …GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC: $25,000 · HealthGOOD SAMAR…EAGLE RANCH INC: $25,000 · HealthEAGLE RANC…BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC: $25,000 · HealthBREAKTHRU …FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $21,265 · HealthFOUNDATION…THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC: $85,000 · EducationTHE ROBER…Atlanta Speech School Inc: $50,000 · EducationAtlanta S…ATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationATLANTA-F…The Hirsch Academy Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Hirsc…THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE GLOBA…BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $30,000 · EducationBREAKTHRO…COMMON GOOD ATLANTA: $20,000 · EducationCOMMON GO…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationGEORGIA T…THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $65,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentDUNWOODY NATURE CENTER INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentSOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 · Housing & ShelterThe Extension Inc: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPARK PRIDE INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsChastain Park Conservancy Inc: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,871,000Human Services$502,500Health$326,265Education$320,000Environment$225,000Housing & Shelter$215,000Recreation & Sports$215,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $67,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $60,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Extension Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChastain Park Conservancy Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $37,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAgape Community Center: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $35,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Hirsch Academy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUNWOODY NATURE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCaringWorks Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM ATLANTA CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillside Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRainbow House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSide by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Tull Charitable Found…Georgia Power Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Waterfall Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananTw Marian W Ottley At…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…AEC Trust
The Imlay Foundation IncGA84.6× affinity39 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 · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · AEC Trust

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 Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report 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
    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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    How do I get to The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Vasser Woolley 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 104 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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