Georgia · Private foundation
Waffle House Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $288k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 39
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $185k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 74% of the organizations Waffle House Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $288k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $322k | 74% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $255k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $343k | 87% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $99k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Atlanta | $55,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Camp Southern Ground Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Must Ministries Inc | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Fcs Urban Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feed the Children Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian City Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Twin Lakes Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Agape Community Center | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc | $23,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waffle House Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
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About Waffle House Foundation Inc
- How much does Waffle House Foundation Inc give?
- Waffle House Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $288,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 39 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Waffle House Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Human Services (18%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Waffle House Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Breakthrough Atlanta ($55k), Camp Southern Ground Inc ($45k), Operation Warm Inc ($40k).
- Does Waffle House Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waffle House Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waffle House Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Imlay Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Tr Uw Charles I Branan.
- Where is Waffle House Foundation Inc based?
- Waffle House Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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