· Private foundation
William & Lisa McGahan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $72,207 |
| UNITED WAY OF ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $15,850 |
| WESTMINISTER | $15,300 |
| GEORGIA WORKS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| FROM HOUSES TO HOMES | $6,858 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| POPE TOUCHDOWN LLC | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $1,800 |
| HIS HANDS YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM | $1,500 |
| GEORGIA SPEECH LANGUAGE HEARING ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
| LEND A HAND | $1,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
Cornell University6× · 2020–2025 · $237k · revenue +46%- GWGeorgia Works Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +85%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGone grant, 2023 · $20k
- FFHTHone grant, 2021 · $11k
- GSGEORGIA SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
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.…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Qlarant inc's, mission is to improve health in the communities we serve.
Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is The Agape 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 95 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
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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TONIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds The Howard School Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Works Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds FROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTANDO EN PR 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 · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · William Josef Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
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 William & Lisa McGahan Family Foundation 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.
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.
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