· Private foundation
The Whitcomb Family Foundation Inc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $717k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $870k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOX COLLEGE | $1,750,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY | $150,000 |
| MICHAELS WAY | $100,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS INC | $75,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH INC | $75,000 |
| EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE INC | $70,000 |
| ANCHORAGE INC | $60,000 |
| IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $60,000 |
| RECLIF COMMUNITY INC | $55,000 |
| AHIMSA HOUSE | $50,000 |
| RECLIF COMMUNITY INC | $50,000 |
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, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- KCKNOX COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +12%
EAGLE RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +37%- TATHE ANCHORAGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +133% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- CMCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INCone grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue 0%
- BFBRIGHTSTONE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- GMGEORGIA METH PROJECT INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -3%
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.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
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.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…
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.
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.…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is KIDZ2LEADERS Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ultimate Peace Inc. 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 24 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 100 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 KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHORAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FURKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS TO THE FORLORN PITBULL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds RECLIF COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ULTIMATE PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds VIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE KRACHE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE COFFEE CO ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AHIMSA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERVEHAITI INC ↗
- Who funds TEKTON CAREER TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds SIGSBEE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE TEEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH 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 · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Assurant Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation · Georgia Power 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 Whitcomb Family Foundation 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.
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.