Funder Standing / The O Wayne Rollins Foundation

The O Wayne Rollins Foundation

GA · EIN 586066677 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

15 of 29 organizations The O Wayne Rollins Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 41.2%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
41.2%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$2,000
Range $250 – $28,996,414
Repeat-dollar share
99.9%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
EMORY UNIVERSITY$28,996,414
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$5,037,589
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS$4,971,336
YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE$352,500
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$64,640
ROLLINS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND$20,000
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ATLANTA$10,000
CHRIST COVENANT$10,000
HEY LADY INCnew$10,000
ATLANTA MINISTRY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INCnew$7,000
ROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMYnew$5,000
COMMUNITY CENTER OF FINCA 6$4,800
ANTIOCH CEMETERY TRUST CORPORATION$2,000
THE TEMPLE$1,775
COMPUTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAnew$1,000
MARIETTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONnew$1,000
PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEASTnew$1,000
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH MARIETTA INCnew$800
STONEBRIDGE CHURCH INCnew$700
VIBHA INCnew$510
FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC$500
GWIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAnew$500
LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECTnew$500

Showing the 25 largest of 29 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The O Wayne Rollins Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.