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Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main at a glance

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Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.8MArts & Culture$2.2MHealth$1.1MPhilanthropy$920kHuman Services$893kRecreation & Sports$675kCommunity Improvement$640kHousing & Shelter$629kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $588k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATH FOUNDATION INC$250,000
FERNBANK INC$250,000
INTERDENOMINATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CENTER I$140,000
ATLANTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$125,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC$100,000
VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC$100,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$100,000
HISTORIC OAKLAND FOUNDATION INC$100,000
JEWISH HOMELIFE$100,000
THE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC$100,000
THE LOVETT SCHOOL$100,000
CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS INC$80,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC$75,000
CAMP KUDZU INC$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY SUPPORT CIRCLE: $10k → 22%GIFT OF LIFE MISSION INC: $10k → 15%CALLED TO CARE INC: $5k → 17%IAMHOLDENON INC: $20k → 18%STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY CENT: $30k → 19%THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $5k → 28%THE GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 6%SER FAMILIA INC: $30k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SER FAMILIA INC: $25k → 8%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $50k → 13%STREET GRACE: $25k → 9%STREET GRACE: $10k → 9%SWEETWATER MISSION INC: $5k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $50k → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $10k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $50k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $25k → 13%CHILDREN WITHOUT BEDS: $25k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $40k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $100k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA: $50k → 13%GIDEONS PROMISE INC: $12k → 13%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $50k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA INC: $8k → 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

NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 51 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
146

Total granted

$5.1M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FI
    Fernbank Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +35%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +62%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -1%
  • TB
    TERMINUS BALLET INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -1%
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
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
2
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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3
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

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.

Education
4
Leadership Atlanta Inc

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…

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5
Every Student Every Community Inc

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.

Education
6
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

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…

Education
7
Junior Achievement of Georgia

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…

International
8
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

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…

Education
9
Georgia Appleseed Inc

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…

Civil Rights
10
Georgia Agape Inc

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…

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11
City Academy of Atlanta Inc

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…

Education
12
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

202 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. 202 of the 230 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
201/202
Grantees still filing
109/202
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF: $200,000 · OtherInterdenominational Theological Center Inc: $165,000 · Other+93 more: $4,504,638 · Other+93 moreBERRY COLLEGE INC: $200,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $125,000 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE SCH…Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $125,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacooche…SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $100,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Colorado: $77,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $75,000 · Education+27 more: $883,000 · Education+27 moreFernbank Inc: $500,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank IncROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF…CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $220,243 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PUPPET…TERMINUS BALLET INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTERMINUS BALLET I…THE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CALLANWOLDE F…NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER F…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $375,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $825,000 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $60,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLE RANCH INC: $135,810 · HealthVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $125,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $62,500 · HealthAnnandale At Suwanee Inc: $50,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $50,000 · HealthASCENSA HEALTH INC: $50,000 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthThe Foundation for Rhodes Homes Inc: $50,000 · HealthNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $36,973 · Health+7 more: $110,000 · HealthGeorgia Works Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA: $55,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesHouse of Cherith Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesStreet Grace Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY: $30,000 · Human Services+7 more: $97,000 · Human ServicesPATH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFUGEES FAMILY INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsATLANTA URBAN SQUASH INC D/B/A A SQUASH: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In the Streets Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,869,638Education$1,985,500Arts & Culture$1,870,243Philanthropy$930,000Health$820,283Human Services$807,000Recreation & Sports$700,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $825,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFernbank Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $220,243 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterdenominational Theological Center Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $150,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTERMINUS BALLET INC: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $135,810 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAgape Community Center: $115,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSWEET AUBURN WORKS: $110,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLITERACY ACTION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Colorado: $77,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Imlay Foundation …Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Community Foundat…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…United Way of Greater…Georgia Power Foundat…AEC TrustTull Charitable Found…Tuw Thomas H PittsThe Waterfall Foundat…The Sartain Lanier Fa…
Atl Fdn-W Peters MainMO164.7× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
73report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 230 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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