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Tripp & Blair Rackley Family 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.

$488k
Granted FY2018
17
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$359k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Tripp & Blair Rackley Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Tripp & Blair Rackley Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $488k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
12
’18
4
’19
7
’20
9
’21
6
’22
6
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$321kScience & Tech$117kHuman Services$69kReligion$64kEnvironment$50kAnimals$42kOther$0
02FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
  • $250k+1 grant · $359k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOR FIRETHORN CHARITABLE FD$359,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN-COASTAL & MARINE LAB$46,450
Individual grant recipient$38,500
CHAMPION CHARITIES$12,420
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALEXANDER THARPE FUND$5,000
LOVETT SCHOOL$5,000
PATH FOUNDATION INC$5,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (TROOP #304)$1,000
MADISON-MORGAN CONSERVANCY$1,000
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
FIRST BAPTIST OF AUGUSTA$1,000
RED CROSS$1,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$930
GRATEFUL HEARTS MINISTRIES$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND inc: $50k → 6%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $46k → 6%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $7k → 13%LAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
TN
SC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 16 repeat orgs$573k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2018, 8 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$1.8M
$237k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +179%
  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $152k · revenue +214%
  • CT
    CAMP TWIN LAKES INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • AT
    ALEXANDER THARPE FUND (GA Tech Athletic Assn)
    one grant, 2017 · $175k
  • PR
    PEACHTREE ROAD METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • CB
    CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
Georgia Tech Foundation Funding Corporation

To assist the georgia tech foundation in the acquisition of real estate or other projects for the support of the georgia tech institute of technology

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3
Georgia Tech Foundation Real Estate Holding Corporation

The georgia tech foundation real estate holding corporation was formed to hold title to real estate and similar property on behalf of the georgia tech foundation, inc., and for other purposes permitted under section 501(c)(2) of the…

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4
Gcsaa Foundation

Secure funding and support to strengthen advocacy, education, and research that advances the work of golf course management professionals.

Education
5
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

The association of governing boards of universities and colleges advances higher education as a public good by preparing college, university, and foundation governing boards to fulfill their fiduciary duties and exemplify the highest…

Education
6
Usga Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…

Recreation & Sports
7
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
8
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
9
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
12
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grateful Hearts Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,001,462 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+4 more: $40,500 · PhilanthropySCHWAB CHARITABLE FOR FIRETHORN CHARITABLE FD: $459,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE FOR FIRETHORN C…Individual grant recipient: $204,805 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGEORGIA TECH: $187,500 · OtherGEORGIA TECHALEXANDER THARPE FUND (GA Tech Athletic Assn): $175,000 · OtherALEXANDER THARPE FUND (GA Tech At…GEORGIA TECH-CENTER RENOVATION: $100,000 · OtherGEORGIA TECH-CENTER RENOVATIONFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $96,137 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYGEORGIA TECH COMPETITIVE DRIVE INITIATIVE: $75,000 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN-COASTAL & MARINE LAB: $65,900 · OtherALEXANDER THARPE FUND: $61,000 · OtherPEACHTREE ROAD METHODIST CHURCH: $60,395 · Other+21 more: $120,451 · Other+21 moreGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $362,250 · EducationGEORGIA TEC…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 · EducationGEORGIA TEC…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $32,500 · EducationTHE LOVETT …+3 more: $2,500 · EducationCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $6,550 · Human Services+2 more: $1,100 · Human ServicesCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $41,800 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,250 · Recreation & SportsDucks Unlimited Inc: $17,244 · EnvironmentMadison-Morgan Conservancy Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentHRJ CHARITIES INC: $12,420 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$3,041,962Other$1,605,188Education$549,250Human Services$103,650Recreation & Sports$78,050Environment$25,244Youth Development$13,420

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,001,462 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $362,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $96,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $41,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $17,244 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $12,420 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMadison-Morgan Conservancy Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $6,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEYBACK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER'S WAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC: $513 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRATEFUL HEARTS MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds HRJ CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds Madison-Morgan Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18× affinity7 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 · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tripp & Blair Rackley Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tripp & Blair Rackley Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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