· Private foundation
Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $588k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATH FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| FERNBANK INC | $250,000 |
| INTERDENOMINATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CENTER I | $140,000 |
| ATLANTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $125,000 |
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $100,000 |
| VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $100,000 |
| JEWISH HOMELIFE | $100,000 |
| HISTORIC OAKLAND FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| THE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC | $80,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC | $75,000 |
| THE STUDY HALL 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 (FY20–24, $780k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 33 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- FIFernbank Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +35%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +62%
- CFCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC2× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -1%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OFone grant, 2021 · $200k
- TBTERMINUS BALLET INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -1%
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
The mission of the atlanta neighborhood charter school (ancs) is to use the principles of the coalition of essential schools to: build an empowered and inclusive community of students,parents, and educators; engage the whole…
Through the time, talent, and resources of corporate, education, and community partners, Junior Achievement of Georgia inspires and prepares young people, K-12th grade, to succeed in a global economy. All programs align with Georgia's…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…
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…
City academy of atlanta, inc. believes that discipling our own children is best accomplished within a community of likeminded families on mission together. our purpose is to serve the family through offering a model of deliberate…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Johnson Stem Activity Center 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 32 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
202 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. 202 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Interdenominational Theological Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TERMINUS BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds SWEET AUBURN WORKS ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Works Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta 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: Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family 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 Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main 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.
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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