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Communities in Schools of Georgia

Communities in schools champions the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$359k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$19MYouth Development$333kHuman Services$174kPhilanthropy$23k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $937k
  • $250k+3 grants · $980k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIS OF GEORGIA IN LAURENS COUNTY LLC$358,944
CIS OF FITZGERALDBEN HILL COUNTY$358,599
CIS OF CANDLER COUNTY$262,833
CIS OF BERRIEN COUNTY$179,060
CIS OF GLYNN COUNTY$150,000
CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY$83,139
CIS OF DODGE COUNTY$64,922
CIS OF BURKE COUNTY$59,733
CIS OF GLASCOCK COUNTY$50,125
CIS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY$50,000
CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY$50,000
CIS OF CATOOSA COUNTY$50,000
CIS OF BLECKLEYCOCHRAN COUNTY$50,000
CIS OF ROMEFLOYD COUNTY$50,000
CIS OF MILLEDGEVILEBALDWIN COUNTY$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $30k → 11%CIS OF WARREN COUNTY: $24k → 23%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $99k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $57k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $29k → 11%CIS OF WARREN COUNTY: $23k → 23%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $83k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $50k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $28k → 11%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $60k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $41k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $27k → 11%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $50k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $37k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $24k → 11%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $42k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $35k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $23k → 11%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $31k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $35k → 27%CIS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $14k → 11%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $28k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $30k → 27%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $26k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $25k → 27%CIS OF ATHENSCLARKE COUNTY: $23k → 27%CIS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $23k → 27%CIS OF ATLANTA: $258k → 13%CIS OF ATLANTA: $42k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 28 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$19M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+6%

Still filing today

54%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF FITZGERALD BEN HILL CO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +369% · 57% of their budget
  • CI
    Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $725k · revenue +156%
  • BC
    BURKE COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +186% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • WC
    WILKES COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +6%
  • CH
    CIS HENRY COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Communities in Schools of Va

Cis mission is to surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Petersburg Inc

Communities in schools of petersburg surrounds students with a communiity of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Philanthropy
3
Communities in Schools of East Texas

Dropout prevention program providing services which will enhance the likelihood of students continued participation in their education process.

Education
4
Communities in Schools of Candler Co Inc

Communities in Schools of Candler County is a non-profit drop-out organization. Our purpose is to see at-risk kids of the community have everything needed to get to school, stay in school and be promoted or graduate at the end of the…

Education
5
Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc

To prevent under-resourced children from dropping out or failing in school by surrounding them with a community of support at the school house to include tutoring, mentoring, case management, afterschool and other enrichment activities,…

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6
Communities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands

Surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
7
Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc

The organization's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

—
8
Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania

The mission of communities in schools of pennsylvania, inc. is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.

Education
9
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc

To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…

Education
10
Communities in Schools of Central Georgia Inc

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life. Our goal is to support youth, improve graduation rates, academic acheivement and job and post-secondary school…

Education
11
Family Connection Communities in School of Berrien County Inc

The entity is dedicated to coordinating human services and delivering them to children and youth in berrien county, georgia and to their families through the supportive environment of the public school or alternate education sites, the…

Education
12
Communities in Schools of High Point Inc

The mission of communities in schools of high point is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cis will be the community's premier organization providing solutions targeting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Communities in Schools of Athens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Catoosa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIS OF GEORGIA IN MARIETTA CITYCOBB COUNTY LLC: $7,165,181 · OtherCIS OF GEORGIA IN MARIETTA CITYCOBB COUNTY LLCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INC: $1,216,534 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ALBANY- DOUGHERTY COUNTY INC: $975,140 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ALBANY- DOUGHERTY COUNTY INCCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF LAURENS COUNTY: $905,220 · OtherCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF LAURENS COUNTYCIS OF CANDLER COUNTY: $645,128 · OtherCIS OF BERRIEN COUNTY: $607,289 · OtherCIS OF DODGE COUNTY: $575,143 · OtherCIS OF MILLEDGEVILEBALDWIN COUNTY: $543,622 · OtherCIS OF GLASCOCK COUNTY: $539,562 · Other+7 more: $1,033,983 · Other+7 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF FITZGERALD BEN HILL CO INC: $1,072,962 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc: $724,588 · EducationCommunities in Scho…BURKE COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC: $452,208 · EducationBURKE COUNTY FAMILY…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $409,117 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA: $343,542 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROME-FLOYD COUNTY INC: $291,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…+1 more: $72,819 · EducationFAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $441,710 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTION CIS OF HANCOCK: $332,876 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $299,237 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTION & CIS OF WASH: $174,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTION OF WARREN COUNTY INC: $47,047 · Human ServicesRISE Augusta Inc: $184,496 · Youth DevelopmentHart Partners Inc: $87,235 · Youth DevelopmentWILKES COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $23,000 · Philanthropy
Other$14,206,802Education$3,366,736Human Services$1,294,870Youth Development$271,731Philanthropy$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INC: $1,216,534 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF FITZGERALD BEN HILL CO INC: $1,072,962 over 9y, 57% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ALBANY- DOUGHERTY COUNTY INC: $975,140 over 5y, 51% of budgetCOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF LAURENS COUNTY: $905,220 over 5y, 21% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Glynn County Inc: $724,588 over 9y, 15% of budgetBURKE COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC: $452,208 over 9y, 25% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $441,710 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $409,117 over 9y, 71% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA: $343,542 over 9y, 11% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION CIS OF HANCOCK: $332,876 over 9y, 47% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $299,237 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROME-FLOYD COUNTY INC: $291,500 over 9y, 24% of budgetRISE Augusta Inc: $184,496 over 4y, 23% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION & CIS OF WASH: $174,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetHart Partners Inc: $87,235 over 3y, 28% of budgetPARTNERS ADVANCING STUDENT SUCCESS: $72,819 over 2y, 12% of budgetStudent Success Alliance Inc: $58,443 over 2y, 28% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION OF WARREN COUNTY INC: $47,047 over 2y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF FITZGERALD BEN HILL CO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ALBANY- DOUGHERTY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF LAURENS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc ↗
  • Who funds BURKE COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION CIS OF HANCOCK ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROME-FLOYD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE Augusta Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION & CIS OF WASH ↗
  • Who funds Hart Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS ADVANCING STUDENT SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds Student Success Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF WARREN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILKES COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Communities in Schools of Georgia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communities in Schools of Georgia. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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