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William Josef Foundation Inc at a glance

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William Josef Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$5.6MPhilanthropy$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.4MCivil Rights$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEnvironment$1.2MHealth$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.8M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN DOORS INC$175,000
COMMON MARKET GEORGIA$150,000
ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$150,000
SALVATION ARMY$150,000
GEORGIA WORKS$150,000
INTOWN CARES$150,000
HOPE ATLANTA$125,000
GSU HEALTH POLICY CENTERARCHI$125,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$125,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FUND$125,000
PARTNERS FOR HOME$125,000
ATLANTA LAND TRUST$100,000
GIDEON'S PROMISE$100,000
GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK$100,000
GEORGIA BUDGET & POLICY INSTITUTE$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET: $250k → 14%MUST MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $50k → 14%MUST MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%OPEN DOORS INC: $175k → 14%OPEN DOORS INC: $175k → 14%OPEN DOORS INC: $175k → 14%OPEN DOORS INC: $125k → 14%OPEN DOORS INC: $100k → 14%OPEN DOORS INC: $100k → 14%CARINGWORKS: $125k → 14%MARY HALL FREEDOM HOUSE: $50k → 13%INTOWN CARES: $150k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%LOVE BEYOND WALLS: $90k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $150k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $150k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $50k → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNER'S FUND: $150k → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNER'S FUND: $150k → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNER'S FUND: $150k → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNER'S FUND: $25k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $250k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $150k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $150k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $125k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $125k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $100k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $100k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $100k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $100k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $100k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $100k → 13%GEORGIA WORKS: $60k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY CENTER: $40k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
VA
DE
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 33 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
39

Total granted

$12M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $990k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $900k · revenue +55%
  • OD
    Open Doors Solutions Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $850k · revenue +78%
  • GP
    GIDEONS PROMISE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • MS
    MLK SR COMMUNITY RESOURCES COLLAB
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • SU
    STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +87%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
2
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
3
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
4
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc

To protect and empower immigrant survivors of crime and persecution.

Crime & Legal
5
Homeaid Georgia Inc

HomeAids mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

Employment
6
Feeding the Homeless Project Inc

Feeding homeless individuals in Downtown Atlanta.

Food & Nutrition
7
Georgia Organics Inc

Georgia Organics invests in organic farmers for the health of our communities and the land.

Environment
8
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
9
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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10
Trans Housing Coalition Inc

The corporation helps atlanta's chronically homeless transgender and gender non-conforming people move from the streets into long-term housing and on to the lives they want to lead.

Housing & Shelter
11
Transforming Georgia Inc

Transforming Georgia, Inc. is organized to make an indelible impact on the lives of Georgians through fighting for voting rights, supporting legislative solutions, programs and other proactive efforts to transform our communities.

Civil Rights
12
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Gateway 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 87 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
32/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Open Doors Solutions Inc: $850,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solutions IncGIDEONS PROMISE INC: $800,000 · Human ServicesGIDEONS PROMISE INCSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $475,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INCGeorgia Works Inc: $360,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Works IncATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $350,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORP…VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILD…STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET I…INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 · Human Services+7 more: $470,000 · Human Services+7 moreCONSERVATION FUND: $500,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $375,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHOPE ATLANTA INC: $275,000 · OtherMLK SR COMMUNITY RESOURCES COLLAB: $250,000 · OtherSouthern Center for Human Rights: $575,000 · OtherSouthern Center for Human RightsFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $360,000 · OtherFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INCTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $275,000 · OtherGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 · OtherGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE I…+40 more: $2,740,250 · Other+40 morePARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $725,000 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERS FOR HOM…ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $450,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA NEIGHBOR…SOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 · Housing & ShelterSOLOMON'S TEMPLE…ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA LAND TRU…GEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterGEORGIA ADVANCIN…CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $85,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $150,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,170,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…Latino Community Fund Inc: $570,000 · PhilanthropyLatino Commu…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $165,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNIT…+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $900,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA CO…COMMON MARKET GEORGIA INCORPORATED: $400,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMON MAR…GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL GRO…OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE INC: $625,000 · HealthHealth Education Assessment and Leadership Inc: $175,000 · HealthGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $75,000 · HealthFirst Step Staffing Inc: $700,000 · EmploymentGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $50,000 · Employment
Human Services$4,010,000Other$5,750,250Housing & Shelter$2,460,000Philanthropy$1,920,000Food & Nutrition$1,655,000Health$875,000Employment$750,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,170,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $900,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $850,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetGIDEONS PROMISE INC: $800,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPARTNERS FOR HOME INC: $725,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE INC: $625,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $575,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $570,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $475,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $450,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $400,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMON MARKET GEORGIA INCORPORATED: $400,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $360,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGeorgia Works Inc: $360,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $350,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $305,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA: $275,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $275,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $225,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetAltamaha Riverkeeper Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetHealth Education Assessment and Leadership Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $165,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSTAR C CORPORATION: $125,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCaringWorks Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGEORGIA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ASSOCIATION INC: $96,250 over 2y, 67% of budgetLove Beyond Walls Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRINITY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe Extension Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…Tull Charitable Found…The Imlay Foundation …Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananGeorgia Power Foundat…Betty and Davis Fitzg…The Waterfall Foundat…Tuw Thomas H PittsTHDF II Inc DBA The H…Kaiser Foundation Hea…
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA71.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William Josef Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Josef Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to William Josef Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to William Josef 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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