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Tr Walter Rich Et Al Mem Fd Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$906kArts & Culture$405kHousing & Shelter$306kRecreation & Sports$250kCommunity Improvement$212kHealth$136kHuman Services$129kEnvironment$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ATLANTA$125,000
WOODWARD ACADEMY$100,000
ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION$50,000
JERUSALEM HOUSE$50,000
ETHNE HEALTH$30,248
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA$30,000
CAMP KUDZU$25,000
SOCCER IN THE STREETS$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $50k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 14%GEORGIA WORKS: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$880k · 5 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
28

Total granted

$880k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +62%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%
  • TA
    TREES ATLANTA INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +23%
  • AB
    ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
2
Atlanta Historical Society Inc

Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…

Arts & Culture
3
Atlanta International School

The mission at atlanta international school is to develop courageous leaders who shape their world for the better. at our core is creating a joy of learning and purposeful effort, and mutual respect and understanding, in an inclusive and…

Education
4
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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5
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
6
The Atlanta Academy Inc

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.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

In a world becoming exponentially more complex, girls will face challenges in college and beyond that will require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and confidence to be solved. at atlanta girls' school (ags), we teach girls to be…

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10
The Atlanta Chapter the American Institute of Architects Inc

To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.

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11
Cathedral Towers Inc

Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.

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12
Breakthrough Atlanta

Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%0%<5yr18%9%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr8%29%35–55yr8%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%0%<5yr18%4%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr8%30%35–55yr8%48%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
22%
3,487/16,027

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Spelman College — $300,000 · EducationSpelman CollegePACE ACADEMY INC — $200,000 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCTRINITY SCHOOL INC — $125,000 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL INCWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · EducationWOODWARD ACADEMY INCGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $50,965 · EducationGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS I…+3 more — $55,000 · Education+3 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ART…ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PART…THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM…The Theatrical Outfit Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Theatrical Outfit…WYLDE CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE ATLANTA INC — $125,000 · OtherHOPE ATLANTA INCWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $75,000 · OtherWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INCAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER PUBLIC — $50,000 · OtherAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER PU…CALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTER — $50,000 · OtherCALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTERATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATIO…GEORGIA CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC — $50,000 · OtherGEORGIA CORPORATION FOR ECONO…Historic Oakland Foundation Inc — $25,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $55,294 · OtherTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION I…Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $65,000 · OtherAtlanta Humane Society & Soci…TREES ATLANTA INC — $50,000 · OtherTREES ATLANTA INCCAMP KUDZU INC — $25,000 · Other+3 more — $38,034 · Other+3 morePATH FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDA…Soccer In the Streets Inc — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In t…CANTERBURY COURT INC — $119,894 · HealthETHNE HEALTH INC — $30,248 · HealthDDD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING INC — $24,000 · Housing & ShelterClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING SOUTHEAST — $5,753 · Housing & ShelterOpen Doors Solutions Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $8,741 · Human Services
Education$830,965Arts & Culture$505,000Other$683,328Recreation & Sports$275,000Health$175,142Housing & Shelter$89,753Human Services$83,741

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpelman College — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANTERBURY COURT INC — $119,894 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $55,294 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $50,965 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Theatrical Outfit Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOpen Doors Solutions Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetETHNE HEALTH INC — $30,248 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDDD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING INC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIVE-THRIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $8,741 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING SOUTHEAST — $5,753 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Tw Marian W Ottley At…United Way of Greater…The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTHDF II Inc DBA The H…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Power Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Sartain Lanier Fa…J Bulow Campbell Foun…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA42.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation

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 Tr Walter Rich Et Al Mem Fd Uw 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    14report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tr Walter Rich Et Al Mem Fd Uw?

    Find your warmest path to Tr Walter Rich Et Al Mem Fd Uw 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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