Westside Future Fund believes in the future of Atlanta’s Westside and is committed to helping Historic Westside neighborhoods revitalize and develop into a community Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud to call home—the same neighborhoods where he once lived and led the civil rights movement. In 2020, the foundation provided $1.04 million to support the development of two multi–family rental properties in the Westside neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue. The grant funded construction and renovation costs, creating 29 units of permanent affordable housing for Westside residents while limiting community displacement and preserving the community’s historic character.

Arthur M. Blank graduated from Babson College in 1963 with a B.S. in business administration.

In 2022, the foundation established the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership with a $50 million grant, helping position Babson as the global leader in entrepreneurship education. The school now serves as home to the world’s largest dedicated entrepreneurship faculty and acts as the central hub for programming and support that empowers entrepreneurs worldwide.

The YMCA is committed to nurturing the potential of youth, promoting healthy living and fostering social responsibility, ensuring that every individual has access to the essentials needed to learn, grow and thrive. The Atlanta Falcons Youth Fund provided a $65,000 grant in 2019 to expand the Backpack Program to more than 500 youth at five locations including the Arthur M. Blank Family Youth Y, Andrew and Walter Young Family Y, Carl E. Sanders Family Y at Buckhead, the Villages at Carver Family Y and the Arthur M. Blank Early Learning Center at E.A. Ware, providing essential groceries to families needing food support over weekends.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is Georgia’s leading pediatric healthcare provider with three hospitals and multiple neighborhood locations, fighting since 1915 to ensure all children have access to specialized care. In 2022, the foundation announced a transformative $200 million grant to create the Arthur M. Blank Hospital, a new 19–story, 2–million– square–foot facility that will improve quality of care, patient experience and access to specialized pediatric healthcare for Georgia’s children and families.

Since 1960, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta has transformed the lives of children in the community through a proven youth development strategy: mentoring. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta serves more than 2,000 children from 12 metro Atlanta counties, as well as the Columbus, Georgia area. In 2023, the foundation granted $2 million for Level Up, an a large–scale mentoring program that utilizes paid mentors embedded full–time in middle schools.

One of the first grants made after the Molly Blank Fund was established, the Musical Instrument Museum began with a goal to deliver a musical experience that is enriching, inspiring, interesting and fun, building a collection of more than 7,500 instruments from more than 200 countries and territories. The Molly Blank Fund provided $225,000 in 2017 to increase access for Title I students and at–risk youth, while helping sustain Mini Music Makers, the early childhood music and movement classes that introduce young children to the joy of music. The Molly Blank Fund continues to partner with the Musical Instrument Museum, supporting its mission to make music accessible to all children.

Rosie’s House is dedicated to eliminating barriers to high–quality music education, envisioning a community where all youth have access to music education and opportunities for lifetime achievement. The Molly Blank Fund recently approved a $125,000 grant to Rosie’s House to support its continued impact.

The Martin–Springer Institute brings the experiences of the Holocaust into sharp focus to understand those events in the context of today’s concerns and crises. Through public presentations, exhibits, teacher training, symposia and special events, the Institute uses insights and lessons from the past to address current conflicts, including the treatment of refugees, mass violence and genocide. Among other support, the foundation’s Molly Blank Fund provided $234,000 for a Holocaust education program coordinator to expand the Institute’s vital educational outreach.

Montana State University is the state’s oldest public land–grant university and the largest institution of higher education in the state. In 2024, the foundation provided $11.25 million to help fund the first–ever, on–campus facility for the university’s fast–growing Gallatin College MSU—the foundation’s largest grant to date in Montana. Additionally, in 2023, the foundation granted $919,000 to develop and pilot a new one–year Hospitality Management Certificate, supporting young people entering the hospitality and leisure industry while meeting the industry’s growing needs across the state.

The 4 Ranges Recreation Foundation is a nonprofit based in Livingston, Montana, with a mission to build and support the new 4 Ranges Wellness Center, a 43,500–square–foot year– round recreational complex designed to serve Park County. The Wellness Center will create a vibrant and healthy future for the people of Livingston and surrounding areas by providing multigenerational access to programs and activities that promote health, well–being and happiness. In 2022, the foundation provided over $10 million to support this transformative community wellness and aquatic center.

Soccer in the Streets breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for Atlanta’s youth through soccer. The foundation’s Atlanta United Community Fund partnered with Soccer in the Streets and MARTA to create the StationSoccer program, using unused land around MARTA train stations to create mini soccer fields and address transportation barriers that prevent sports participation for low–income youth. In 2016, the Atlanta United Community Fund provided $96,000 to build a 9,600–square–foot mini pitch at the Five Points MARTA Station. There are now four StationSoccer locations operating at Five Points, West End, East Point and Lindbergh MARTA stations.

Future Caucus works directly with our nation’s leading young policymakers on both a federal and state level to bridge the partisan divide and lead a new era of collaborative governance. In 2023, the foundation provided $1.35 million to promote bipartisan collaboration among state legislators, specifically supporting efforts to unite young, elected leaders who strive to bridge partisan divides, serve their constituents effectively and transform American politics through collaborative governance.