· Private foundation
W Emory Waters Jr Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EMORY ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH CENTER | $15,000 |
| EPWORTH BY THE SEA | $4,000 |
| ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| THE METHODIST HOME | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%- MHMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +9%
- AHASCENSA HEALTH INC5× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -42%
- MTMISSION TO THE WORLDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RPREDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
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…
Palmetto Health Council, Inc will be the model of excellence for improving the total health status of the communities it serves. All of our employees will provide comprehensive preventative, curative, and life-enhancing services in a…
Since 1981, the atlanta hospital hospitality house (ahhh) has provided a "home away from home" to outpatients, caregivers, and their family members when the outpatient is receiving medical treatment in an atlanta area hospital. the…
Southeast Georgia Health System Inc., assumed all of the operations of the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority on May 1, 2015 and has agreed to operate the facilities thereof as a community healthcare provider, offering safe,…
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's hospital is a member of trinity health georgia and trinity…
Taylor regional hospital historically has operated as a 49-bed, general, acute-care health institution offering a wide range of specialized services and programs. during the tax year, taylor regional hospital converted from an acute care…
Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., will provide safe, quality, accessible, and cost-effective care to meet the health needs of the people and communities it serves.
The corporation is a medicare-certified hospice and at all times will be operated for the purpose of helping to meet the medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients and their families and mobilizing other…
To provide a coordinated care system with access to quality care, personalized service and education to create a healthy community.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Epworth By The Sea Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING4HEROES ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Emory Waters Jr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Emory Waters Jr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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