Georgia · Public charity
The Waterfall Foundation Inc
To serve as a supporting organization for other charitable organizations.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Waterfall Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Waterfall Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 50 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 64
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $-969035
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Waterfall Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $858k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $3.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $3.3M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $3.1M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $3.0M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $2.9M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $3.3M | 70% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $3.1M | 87% |
| FY2017 | 59 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Croix Mission Outreach Inc | $1,700,000 | 9 | 87% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $1,010,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Amigos For Christ Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Buckhead Christian Ministry Inc | $760,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Mustard Seed Communities Inc | $665,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Park Pride Inc | $651,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Chastain Park Conservancy Inc | $600,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $532,800 | 2 | 2% |
| Dynamo Parents' Club Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc | $475,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 271 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Waterfall Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · AEC Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Waterfall Foundation Inc
- How much does The Waterfall Foundation Inc give?
- The Waterfall Foundation Inc reported 50 grants totaling $3,343,470 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Waterfall Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Environment (8%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are The Waterfall Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Croix Mission Outreach Inc ($1.7M), The Trust for Public Land ($1.0M), Amigos For Christ Inc ($800k).
- Does The Waterfall Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Waterfall Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Imlay Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is The Waterfall Foundation Inc based?
- The Waterfall Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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