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The Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc

Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-2389721. Reported 75 grants totalling $4,060,000 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$50,000median reported grant
$4,060,000granted, 2020-2023
48%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For The Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $120,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
20 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
48 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Girls Incorporated of Greater AtlantaMarietta, GA$250,000442023
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta IncAtlanta, GA$250,000332023
Nicholas House IncAtlanta, GA$250,000332023
HopeDuluth, GA$222,500332023
Livesafe Resources IncMarietta, GA$195,000222023
9 to 5 National Association of Working WomenMilwaukee, WI$192,500332023
Gwinnett Tech Foundation IncLawrenceville, GA$150,000222022
Clayton State University Foundation IncMorrow, GA$145,000332023
Quality Care for Children IncBrookhaven, GA$135,000332022
Our House IncAtlanta, GA$125,000222021
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs IncCleveland, GA$100,000222021
Agape Community Center IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222023
Cool Girls IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222023
Girls on the Run Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222023
Jewish Family & Career Services IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222021
Latin American Association IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222021
Los Ninos Primero IncSandy Springs, GA$100,000222023
Refugee Womens Network IncDecatur, GA$100,000222021
Ser Familia IncKennesaw, GA$100,000222023
The Global Village Project IncDecatur, GA$100,000222023
Vox Teen Communications IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222023
Wellspring Living IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222023
Women in Technology IncAtlanta, GA$100,000222021
Year Up IncBoston, MA$100,000222021
Buckhead Christian Ministry IncAtlanta, GA$75,000112020
Families First IncAtlanta, GA$75,000332022
Georgia State University Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$75,000222023
Literacy Action IncAtlanta, GA$75,000112020
Atlanta Legal Aid Society IncAtlanta, GA$50,000112021
Community Guilds IncAtlanta, GA$50,000112022
Drake House IncRoswell, GA$50,000112021
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta IncMableton, GA$50,000112023
New American Pathways IncAtlanta, GA$50,000112021
Women Moving on IncDecatur, GA$50,000212021
Dress for Success Atlanta IncSandy Springs, GA$35,000112021
House of Dawn IncJonesboro, GA$35,000112022
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute IncAtlanta, GA$30,000112020
Veterans Empowerment Organization of Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$25,000112020
Community Advanced Practice NAtlanta, GA$20,000112020

26 of 39 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
9 orgs
Education
6 orgs
Youth Development
5 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202021$895,000$30,000
202117$935,000$70,000
202220$1,160,000$50,000
202317$1,070,000$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Georgia
$3.8M
Wisconsin
$192K
Massachusetts
$100K

Down to the city

Atlanta, GA
$1.9M
Marietta, GA
$445K
Decatur, GA
$250K
Duluth, GA
$222K
Milwaukee, WI
$192K
Lawrenceville, GA
$150K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Community Foundation for Greater33 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc31 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc29 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsMightycause Charitable Foundation22 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 3715 Northside Pkwy 4-725, Atlanta, GA, 30327.

EIN 58-2389721 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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