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Waffle House Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$288k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$307kHuman Services$237kRecreation & Sports$151kEducation$139kHousing & Shelter$121kFood & Nutrition$73kYouth Development$61kReligion$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $243k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$185k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN CITY$25,000
MUST MINISTRIES$20,000
OPERATION WARM$20,000
CATALYST SPORTS$20,000
LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT$20,000
SONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION$15,000
ANGEL FLIGHT$15,000
AGAPE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER$15,000
CAMP TWIN LAKES$12,500
BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA$10,000
HOMESTRETCH$10,000
AUDITORY VERBAL CENTER$10,000
NORTH METRO MIRACLE LEAGUE$10,000
INTOWN CARES$10,000
SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM: $20k → 10%Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc: $1k → 16%Goshen Valley Foundation: $7k → 6%Camp Southern Grounds: $15k → 6%Lift Up Atlanta Inc: $5k → 8%MUST MINISTRIES: $20k → 8%Heirborn Servants: $10k → 9%Families 4 Families: $10k → 11%Camp Southern Grounds: $15k → 6%Must Ministries: $9k → 8%North Gwinnett Co-Op: $10k → 9%Jumpstart Automotive Training Center: $15k → 13%Camp Southern Grounds: $15k → 6%jambos: $5k → 9%Family Promise of Hall County: $10k → 12%Ser Familia Inc: $5k → 9%Aurora Day Camp: $15k → 13%INTOWN CARES: $10k → 13%Across the Bridge Inc: $20k → 9%CaringWorks Inc: $10k → 14%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children: $10k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $10k → 13%Crossroads Community Ministries: $10k → 13%LEAD Inc: $5k → 13%Central Outreach and Advocacy Center: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$491k · 25 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
80

Total granted

$491k
$648k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

84%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BA
    BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +1%
  • CS
    CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +17%
  • OW
    Operation Warm Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • FT
    FEED THE CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • SV
    St Vincent DePaul Society
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AT
    ACROSS THE BRIDGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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2
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
3
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

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…

Civil Rights
4
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
5
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
6
Families First Inc

Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…

Human Services
7
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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8
Creative Community Services Inc

Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…

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9
Advocates for Children Inc

Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…

—
10
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
11
Covenant Care Services Inc

Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…

Human Services
12
Easter Seals East Georgia Inc

Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Hope Box 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 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%1%<5yr18%12%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr8%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%1%<5yr18%14%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr8%11%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/103
the rest of the field
21%
5,466/25,447

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 123 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
56/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Christian City Inc — $25,000 · OtherSt Vincent DePaul Society — $20,000 · OtherFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · OtherFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INCSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · Other+52 more — $385,450 · Other+52 moreCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INCOperation Warm Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncMust Ministries Inc — $33,500 · Human ServicesMust Ministries IncACROSS THE BRIDGE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesACROSS THE BRIDGE INCSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION — $15,000 · Human Services+17 more — $138,000 · Human Services+17 moreLighthouse Family Retreat Inc — $20,000 · HealthLighthouse Fa…NO LONGER BOUND INC — $20,000 · HealthNO LONGER BOU…LEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC — $20,000 · HealthLEKOTEK OF GE…EAGLE RANCH INC — $15,500 · HealthEAGLE RANCH I…CLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC — $15,000 · HealthCLUBHOUSE ATL…SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED — $15,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A…BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $12,000 · HealthBREAKTHRU HOU…SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $10,000 · HealthSWEET RELIEF …CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COM…+6 more — $19,500 · Health+6 moreBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA — $55,000 · EducationBREAKTHROU…INROADS INC — $10,000 · EducationINROADS IN…THE ELAINE CLARK CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE ELAINE…Brookhaven Innovation Academy — $10,000 · EducationBrookhaven…ATLANTA PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · EducationATLANTA PA…The Hirsch Academy Inc — $9,000 · EducationThe Hirsch…Everybody Wins Atlanta Inc — $5,000 · EducationHOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered — $5,000 · Education+4 more — $4,250 · EducationAgape Community Center — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCatalyst Sports Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH METRO MIRACLE LEAGUE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC — $6,500 · Recreation & SportsAtlanta Braves Foundation — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC — $23,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc — $15,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBREATHESTRONG CF INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA — $15,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $13,000 · Food & NutritionNeighborhood Meals on Wheels Inc — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$505,450Human Services$306,500Health$157,000Education$118,250Recreation & Sports$93,500Philanthropy$77,000Food & Nutrition$48,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA — $55,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $33,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChristian City Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Community Center — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC — $23,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACROSS THE BRIDGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOY WITH A BALL GLOBAL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope Box Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetBREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES OF CHILDREN UNDER STRESS INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES 4 FAMILIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQUALITY GROWTH INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCaringWorks Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTransformations By Atlanta Angels — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Bedford School Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEIRBORN SERVANTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOMESTRETCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINROADS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Meals on Wheels Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFOSTER CARE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananUnited Way of Greater…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainGeorgia Power Foundat…The Scott Hudgens Fam…Community Foundation …Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Frances Wood Wilson F…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Waterfall Foundat…
The Imlay Foundation IncGA79.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall 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 Waffle House Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Waffle House Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waffle House Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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