Grants ranging from $5,000 to $150,000 went to fifty-four local nonprofits to provide general support for emergency needs, healthcare, food distribution, domestic violence shelter and mental health support.

• 3D Girls

• Atlanta Artists Relief Fund

• Atlanta Community Tool Bank

• Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation

• Bearings Bike Shop

• CARE-Atlanta

• Center for Black Women’s Wellness

• CHRIS180 

• Community Assistance Center

• Community Farmers Markets

• Concrete Jungle

• Crossroads Community Ministries

• Emory Feed the Frontlines

• Food Bank of Northeast Georgia

• Food Well Alliance

• Friends of the Atlanta Urban Food Forest

• Gangstas to Growers

• Georgia Grantmakers Alliance

• Georgia Justice Project

• Georgia Organics

• Giving Kitchen

• Global Growers Network 

• Good Samaritan Health Clinic  

• Hand Heart and Soul Project

• Hands on Atlanta

• HEAL Clinic

• Kindezi Schools

• Mary Parrish Center, Nashville, TN

• Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid

• Metro Atlanta Urban Farm

• Midtown Assistance Center

• Motherhood Beyond Bars

• National Alliance on Mental Health, Georgia

• NIA Project

• Partnership Against Domestic Violence

• Positive Growth

• Resilient Georgia

• Tapestri

• The Confess Project

• Toco Hills Community Alliance

• Truly Living Well

• United Way of SW Georgia

• Whitefoord Community

• Wholesome Wave Georgia

• Women’s Resource Center

$1,120,000 was distributed to the COVID Response Funds of 11 community foundations around Georgia.

• Athens Area Community Foundation

• Cobb Community Foundation

• Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation

• Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

• Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

• Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area

• Community Foundation of Central Georgia

• Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia

• Community Foundation of South Georgia

• Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley

• North Georgia Community Foundation

$430,000 supported the COVID Response Funds of the Latino Community Fund, the Farmer Fund at Georgia Organics, the Metro Atlanta Arts Fund and the Atlanta Women’s Foundation.

In 2021, the Foundation also worked with a group of foundations to determine how we could develop a collaborative approach to address the overwhelming increase in housing instability resulting from the pandemic. Our approach focused on using philanthropic funds to build access to federal funds. We came together to identify strategies to ensure that these funds make it into the hands of eligible households to prevent unnecessary evictions.

This group of funders includes the Cousins Foundation, the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation, the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation, the Imlay Foundation, the Sartain-Lanier Family Foundation and the Tull Charitable Foundation. Collectively, these Foundations provided $795,000 in grants to nonprofits working in the following capacities:

• Capacity building grants to nonprofits partnering with local municipalities to disburse federal relief funds

• General operating grants to nonprofits working with underserved populations that are furthest from accessing the federal rental relief funds – this includes organizations that are providing rental relief to families living in extended stay hotels, households that do not have a lease, and households headed by immigrants, as well as those nonprofits providing rental assistance in high need counties

• Grants to nonprofits to support advocacy and/or provide legal representation to households facing eviction