Funding search · economic mobility and poverty · Georgia
Who funds economic mobility and poverty work in Georgia
9 funders have a record of paying for economic mobility and poverty work by Georgia recipients: 53 grants totaling $20.8M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Southern Company Gas Charitable ($788,000), Blue Meridian Partners ($17.7M) and United Way Worldwide ($992,700).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Georgia recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $135,000 to WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — economic mobility
Blue Meridian PartnersNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $17.7M · through 2023Largest: $8.6M to PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC — to support economic mobility
United Way WorldwideAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $992,700 · through 2023Largest: $723,450 to UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA — economic mobility
Largest: $390,000 to SPELMAN COLLEGE — economic mobility
Aarp FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $48,500 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY INC — grant to support aarp foundation's economic mobility program
Largest: $125,000 to UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — family economic mobility
Largest: $200,000 to GreenLight Fund — support of greenlight atlanta fund ii to launch four social innovation programs to improve economic mobility.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of GeorgiaincOakland, CACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $200,000 · through 2022Largest: $200,000 to Westside Future Fund Inc — home on the westside: improving economic mobility
Largest: $9,500 to RC3 — donation to a 501c3 for promoting economic mobility bringing people together and helping families overcome health disparities.
Wend IiBentonville, AR
1 matching grant · $200,000 · through 2023Largest: $200,000 to Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide — to support intergenerational knowledge transfer via convenings and curation of the last 35 years of black land loss prevention and land stewardship: best practices, and the buildin…
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