· Public charity
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc
United way of greater atlanta engages and brings together people and resources to drive sustainable and equitable improvements in the well-being of children, families, and individuals in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 203 grants below total $36,362,465 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,736,589 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,374,124 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k78 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k92 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+26 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRONTLINE HOUSING INC | $4,823,453 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $2,472,000 |
| QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN | $1,725,500 |
| HOUSING PLUS INC | $1,703,096 |
| PARTNERS FOR HOME | $1,680,352 |
| EARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT | $1,550,000 |
| KIPP METRO ATLANTA | $1,415,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY RESTORATION PROJECT CORP | $1,170,234 |
| MARIETTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,131,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $975,857 |
| ZABAN PARADIES CENTER | $793,768 |
| HOMES OF LIGHT LLC | $715,940 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA | $650,000 |
| GEEARS (GA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS) | $593,000 |
| SINGLE PARENT ALLIANCE & RESOURCE CENTER | $544,800 |
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 (FY18–25, $80.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
513 repeat relationships — 170 still active in FY2025, 343 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $935k 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
- FHFRONTLINE HOUSING INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13M · revenue +206% · 93% of their budget
- QCQUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +60%
- 2G247 GATEWAY LLC8× · 2017–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +97% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2020–2022 · $12M · revenue +45%
- KMKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +52%
- GMGEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +116% · 26% of their budget
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.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
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.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
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…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.
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…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
HomeAids mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life. Our goal is to support youth, improve graduation rates, academic acheivement and job and post-secondary school…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Vital Signs Economic Stability Training. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 23% 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.
737 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. 737 of the 906 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 Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds INVEST ATLANTA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUALITY CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FAMILY CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds 247 GATEWAY LLC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY RESTORATION PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSES OF LIGHT LLC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) ↗
- Who funds GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE PARENTS ALLIANCE & RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Marietta Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds HOPE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals North Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP METRO ATLANTA OPPORTUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Nicholas House Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CAREERRISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION 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: The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia
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 United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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.