Paul And Courtney Amos Foundation Inc.

The Paul and Courtney Amos Foundation Inc. is a small, family-run private foundation (EIN 72-1555644, founded 2003, based at 4401 Northside Pkwy NW Ste 720 in Atlanta) with no paid staff — President Paul S. Amos II and Vice President Courtney G. Amos both draw $0 compensation, and administration runs through the family office The Fuqua Group. Its own 990-PF filings check the box indicating the foundation "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and doesn't accept unsolicited applications for funds." That single fact should govern strategy more than any other: this is personal, relationship-driven giving that mirrors the Amos family's own institutional affiliations, not a competitive open program. The 16-grant snapshot in this profile reads like a family's giving list — the schools their children likely attend or attended (The Lovett School, Brookstone School, The Westminster Schools), their church (St Paul United Methodist Church, $225,000 — over half of that year's total), alma maters (Duke University $53,000, Wheaton College scholarship $25,000), and Columbus, GA-area causes tied to the family's home community (United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley, Young Life Columbus, Easterseals West Georgia). Paul S. Amos II is part of the family behind Aflac (he served as Aflac's President until resigning in 2017), and the family has a well-documented, decades-long commitment to pediatric health causes through the separate Aflac Foundation — but that priority has not yet shown up in this particular foundation's grantee list. For first-time applicants without a personal, institutional, or Columbus/Atlanta civic connection to the Amos family, the realistic path to funding is narrow to nonexistent. The most productive approach is not a proposal but an introduction: identify a board member, alumnus, or staff connection at one of the foundation's known grantees, or a mutual contact through the Fuqua Group family office, and use that relationship to get the foundation's attention before any written materials are prepared.

Giving is modest and concentrated. The most recent detailed snapshot (16 grants, fiscal year matching the $430,000 total giving figure) shows a median-adjacent average of $26,875 per grant, ranging from $1,000 (The Life Flight Foundation, Easterseals West Georgia) up to $225,000 (St Paul United Methodist Church) — that single church gift alone represents 52% of the year's total giving, meaning the effective payout to all other organizations combined was roughly $205,000. A separate typical-grant-size figure drawn from more recent records puts the median at $17,500 and the range at $3,000-$200,000 across 12 grants (average $37,833), consistent with a foundation that makes a handful of large, institution-anchoring gifts alongside many smaller ones. By purpose, the available grant list breaks down roughly as: faith-based/church giving ~60% (driven almost entirely by the one $225,000 St Paul UMC gift), independent-school and higher-education giving ~30% (Duke $53,000; Brookstone, Lovett, and Westminster Schools $25,000 each; Wheaton College $25,000), health and human services ~5% (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Winship Cancer Institute, Skyland Trail, Easterseals, Life Flight, each $1,000-$10,000), and community/human-services ~4% (United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley $13,000; Child Share Montana $5,000). Geographically, 9 of 16 grants stayed in Georgia, 3 went to North Carolina (Duke), and single grants reached Illinois, Maine, Montana, and Utah — a strong home-state bias with satellite gifts tied to personal/family connections rather than a stated geographic program. Assets have grown modestly but unevenly: $4.87M (2012) to a peak of $7.34M (2021), a dip to $6.26M (2022), and recovery to $7.07M (2024). Total giving peaked near $805,000-$846,000 in 2014 and again in 2019-2020, fell to $382,000-$521,000 in 2021-2023, and rebounded to roughly $539,500 in the FY2024 filing — payout is recovering but still below the 2019-2020 high.

Granted AI's peer set for this foundation consists of five other private foundations with nearly identical asset bases (all ~$7.07M), all classified under the same Philanthropy & Grantmaking NTEE category — a size-matched cohort rather than a mission-matched one, since none publish a stated focus area in this dataset.

The near-identical asset totals across all six foundations (within a ~$4,700 band) point to a data-clustering artifact of the source dataset rather than a genuine strategic peer group — none of the five comparison foundations have public websites in this dataset, and their giving levels, focus areas, and application posture are unknown. What is distinguishable is that the Amos Foundation is unusually transparent for its size (a functioning, if placeholder, website and a documented family-office administrator) while still operating on the same closed, preselected-giving model that is typical of small, single-family foundations at this asset scale nationally.

The most recent Form 990-PF (fiscal year 2024) shows total assets of $7,071,259, up from $6,689,480 in 2023, on revenue of $658,858 (comprising $280,000 in contributions/grants received, $134,969 in dividend income, and $218,097 in net gains on asset sales) against $597,232 in total expenses, including roughly $539,500 in grants paid. Named 2024 recipients captured in third-party 990 data include Brookstone School ($75,000, a threefold increase from the $25,000 it received in the 2022 filing), Atlanta History Center ($30,000, a new relationship not present in the earlier grantee list), and The Lovett School ($30,000, up from $25,000 in 2022); seven additional 2024 grants were not itemized in available sources. There is no evidence of a leadership change — Paul S. Amos II remains President and Courtney G. Amos remains Vice President, both uncompensated, consistent across all filings reviewed. The foundation's own website (paulandcourtneyamosfoundation.com) currently displays only a "Launching Soon" placeholder with an email sign-up form, suggesting the family may be preparing to formalize a public-facing presence, though no application portal or program pages have appeared as of this research. No press coverage, grant announcements, or news specific to this foundation (as opposed to the separately-run, larger Paul S. & Jean R. Amos Family Foundation, which made headlines with a $15 million gift to Asbury Theological Seminary in November 2025) was found — this remains a low-visibility, non-press-seeking family vehicle.

This foundation's own tax filings state it does not accept unsolicited applications and gives only to preselected organizations, so the single most important "tip" is to not treat this as an open competitive funder. There is no listed contact email, no application form URL, no stated funding cycle, and no program staff — outreach has to route through a personal or institutional connection to Paul S. Amos II or Courtney G. Amos, or through the family office (The Fuqua Group) at the foundation's Atlanta address. Organizations with the strongest odds are ones that already sit inside the family's orbit: independent schools the family's children may attend (Brookstone, Lovett, Westminster), the family's church community (St Paul United Methodist Church has received the foundation's single largest gift, $225,000), alma maters (Duke, Wheaton College), or Columbus, GA/Chattahoochee Valley civic organizations where the extended Amos family (long associated with Aflac, headquartered in Columbus) has deep roots. Given Paul S. Amos II's Aflac history and the family's well-known, separate commitment to pediatric cancer care through the Aflac Foundation, health-focused nonprofits with an Atlanta or Columbus tie and a warm introduction may be worth a targeted approach even though large health gifts have not yet appeared in this foundation's own grant list — the modest health gifts that do appear (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Winship Cancer Institute) suggest the door isn't closed, just narrow. Calibrate the ask: outside of the anchor institutions receiving $25,000-$225,000 gifts, most disbursements fall in the $1,000-$13,000 range, so a realistic first ask for an unfamiliar organization is at the low end, not a six-figure proposal. Avoid mass LOI campaigns, cold portal submissions, or generic proposal templates — none will reach a decision-maker, since there is no portal to submit to. The most effective use of effort is relationship cultivation over 1-2 years (board introductions, event attendance, shared-institution outreach) rather than a single proposal cycle, and periodically checking the foundation's website in case the "Launching Soon" page converts into a real application process.