· Private foundation
The Zeist Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k20 grants · $630k
- $50k–250k53 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $1,550,000 |
| WHITEFOORD INC | $1,525,000 |
| WYLDE CENTER THE | $1,230,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA | $1,021,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $725,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $600,000 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY THE | $600,000 |
| RONALD MC DONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $500,000 |
| ATLANTA BRAVES FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO ATLANTA | $408,333 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $350,000 |
| CHRIS 180 | $333,335 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +62%
- WCWYLDE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +172% · 85% of their budget
- FIFernbank Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +87%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -4%
- PPPARK PRIDE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +170%
- TLTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
Redefined atlanta engages communities, advocates for equity, and funds critical work to drive systemic level improvement in k-12 public education for students and families.
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
How this is measured
133 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. 133 of the 168 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zeist Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zeist Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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