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Georgia Bar Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized pursuant to the georgia nonprofit code.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$47MHuman Services$543kHealth$407kEducation$226kHousing & Shelter$195kCivil Rights$175kYouth Development$155kPublic Benefit$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+9 grants · $9.3M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Georgia Legal Services Program Inc$3,050,000
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc$3,000,000
Georgia Civil Justice Foundation$1,312,266
The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center Inc$375,000
Truancy Intervention Georgia$340,000
Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network$332,900
Georgia Appleseed$325,000
Southwest Georgia Legal Self-Help Center Inc$300,000
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation$250,000
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence$180,000
GA Appellate Prac & Edu Resource Cntr$180,000
KIND Inc - Atlanta Field Office$150,000
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc$140,000
Middle Georgia Justice$122,000
Southern Center for Human Rights$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $40k → 14%SAFE Shelter Center for Domestic Violence: $50k → 16%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $10k → 9%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 13%SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $10k → 16%Share the Magic Foundation: $75k → 13%SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $15k → 16%Catholic Charities Atlanta: $40k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $23k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $15k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $15k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $10k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA: $10k → 8%Atlanta Victim Assistance Inc: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45M · 30 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
13

Total granted

$45M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+108%

Still filing today

93%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $929k 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
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GL
    GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +74%
  • AL
    ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +32%
  • GC
    GEORGIA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue ×11 · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    one grant, 2018 · $2.6M · revenue -11%
  • SG
    SOUTHWEST GEORGIA VICTIM'S ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $42k
  • LF
    LAWYERS FOR EQUAL JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +160%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc
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2
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
4
Competitive Georgia Inc

Competitive Georgia is dedicated to fostering a balanced, fair, and predictable legal environment in Georgia through tort reform that curbs frivolous lawsuits, stabilizes insurance costs, and promotes economic growth while preserving…

Public Benefit
5
Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal
6
Georgia Legal Services Foundation

Supporting organization for georgia legal services, which provides legal services to the indigent in the state of georgia outside of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Philanthropy
7
Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc

The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.

Human Services
8
Georgia Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty

To provide free, quality civil legal services to homeless people and to play a leadership role in addressing the issues underlying homelessness.

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9
Georgia Guardians Ad Litem Inc Brandy Daswani

Our mission is to empower and elevate the vital work of the guardians ad litem throughout the state of georgia. we are dedicated to providing comprehensive education, specialized training, and unwavering support to these dedicated…

Education
10
Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

Human Services
11
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Inc

THE Georgia Trial Lawyers Association has worked in the legislative, political and media arenas since 1956 to ensure that Georgians know and understand the importance of their Right to Trial by Jury and the vital role of the Civil Justice…

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12
Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault

To coordinate and implement trainings, technical assistance, support and information to sexual assault agencies, communities and concerned individuals who share a common goal of supporting survivors and ending sexual assault.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Legal Services Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gilliard and Company Gco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…Developmental Disabilities …Youth Sports ProgramsHomeless Services & HousingFamily Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr17%13%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr10%36%35–55yr11%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr15%7%20–35yr10%59%35–55yr11%26%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/59
the rest of the field
18%
7,296/39,898

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC — $17,784,695 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INCATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $12,113,432 · Crime & LegalATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INCEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $2,600,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSTHE GEORGIA HEIRS PROPERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,599,494 · Crime & LegalTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA — $1,294,000 · Crime & Legal+12 more — $2,281,582 · Crime & Legal+12 moreGEORGIA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $4,652,436 · Civil RightsGEORGIA CIVIL…GEORGIA APPLESEED INC — $860,000 · Civil RightsGEORGIA APPLE…+4 more — $350,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN — $1,835,000 · OtherATLANTA V…THE GEORGIA APPELLATE PRACTICE & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC — $817,500 · OtherTHE GEORG…ASH TREE ORGANIZATION INC — $352,000 · OtherASH TREE …Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc — $250,000 · OtherGeorgia C…BASICS Program State Bar of GA — $215,000 · OtherHOPE ATLANTA INC — $195,000 · Other+15 more — $463,885 · Other+15 moreSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC — $152,600 · Human ServicesSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesHALCYON HOME FOR BATTERED WOMANINC — $45,000 · Human ServicesSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF NW GA INC — $30,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY SHIPS FOR YOUTH — $109,000 · EducationPEACHTREE RIDGE ROBOTICS BOOSTER CLUB INC — $48,000 · EducationLAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY EDUCATION NETWORK — $19,500 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $7,500 · EducationTHE WARRIOR ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 · Public BenefitNorth Georgia Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitLOWNDES DRUG ACTION COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · HealthMOSAIC GEORGIA INC — $25,000 · HealthMARY'S PLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC — $20,000 · Health
Crime & Legal$37,673,203Civil Rights$5,862,436Other$4,128,385Human Services$632,600Education$184,000Public Benefit$125,000Health$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC — $17,784,695 over 9y, 18% of budgetATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $12,113,432 over 9y, 23% of budgetGEORGIA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $4,652,436 over 9y, 94% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $2,600,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN — $1,835,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetTHE GEORGIA HEIRS PROPERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,599,494 over 7y, 41% of budgetTRUANCY INTERVENTION PROJECT GEORGIA — $1,294,000 over 9y, 56% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC — $860,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE GEORGIA APPELLATE PRACTICE & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC — $817,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetGEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC — $723,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST GEORGIA LEGAL SELF-HELP CENTER INC — $616,582 over 7y, 87% of budgetASH TREE ORGANIZATION INC — $352,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COUNCIL INC — $326,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetGeorgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc — $250,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC — $195,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC — $180,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $155,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC — $152,600 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $140,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc — $137,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY SHIPS FOR YOUTH — $109,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDEKALB PRO BONO — $76,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNorth Georgia Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLIBERTY COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPEACHTREE RIDGE ROBOTICS BOOSTER CLUB INC — $48,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC — $47,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHALCYON HOME FOR BATTERED WOMANINC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLOWNDES DRUG ACTION COUNCIL INC — $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP — $35,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE LILY PAD SANE CENTER INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF NW GA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY EDUCATION NETWORK — $19,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSTATE BAR OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …United Way of Greater…The Waterfall Foundat…Equal Justice WorksThalia & Michael C Ca…The John and Rosemary…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainAtlanta Legal Aid Soc…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA37.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Georgia Bar Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Georgia Bar Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Georgia Bar Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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