· Private foundation
The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ATLANTA | $60,300 |
| GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL | $25,348 |
| ATLANTA BALLET | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $12,000 |
| PILGRIMAGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| SKYLAND TRAIL | $6,600 |
| ATLANTA OPERA | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC | $5,000 |
| ANDEE'S ARMY INC | $5,000 |
| DAUGHTERS AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $3,000 |
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, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- GCGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +29%
- TPTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +39%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF7× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +163%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Mountain Bicycling Association. 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 39 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.
101 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. 101 of the 152 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 ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIMAGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds La Paz Global ↗
- Who funds Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND 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 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Klump Family Foundation Inc · The Zeist 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 Virginia & Charles Brewer Family 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.