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Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc

The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians.

$178k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$362kHuman Services$266kPublic Benefit$223kHealth$179kEducation$74kCivil Rights$71kArts & Culture$48kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $149,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $177,591 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,391 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $135k
$14,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GA STAND UP$16,000
HAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT$16,000
GEORGIA EDUC FOR EQUITY &J$16,000
SOWEGA RISING$15,000
ASIAN AMERICAN VOICES FOR EDU$15,000
PEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS$14,100
INTERCULTURAL DEV RESEARCH A$12,500
GA CONGRESS PARENTS TEACHERS$10,300
COLUMBUS LITERATE COMM PROG$10,000
9 to 5 Georgia$10,000
CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION$8,500
COALITION THE PEOPLES AGENDA$5,800
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 (FY18–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BARRED BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%MIGRANT EQUITY SOUTHEAST INC: $10k → 16%COALITION THE PEOPLES AGENDA: $15k → 13%COALITION THE PEOPLES AGENDA: $10k → 13%COALITION THE PEOPLES AGENDA: $6k → 13%Voices for Georgias Children: $20k → 13%INTERFAITH CHILDRENS MOVEME: $10k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$383k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$1.0M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropySocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SB
    SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $315k · revenue +35%
  • GS
    GEORGIA SHIFT INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $70k · revenue +12%
  • GC
    Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda
    3× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • 9G
    9to5 Georgia
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • SB
    Small Business Majority
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SU
    STEP UP SAVANNAH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +12%
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
Transforming Georgia Inc

Transforming Georgia, Inc. is organized to make an indelible impact on the lives of Georgians through fighting for voting rights, supporting legislative solutions, programs and other proactive efforts to transform our communities.

Civil Rights
2
Georgia Muslim Voter Project

Georgia Muslim Voter Project(GAMVP)works to strengthen civic participation among Muslims in Georgia via nonpartisan voter engagement,advocacy&grassroots organizing.We strive to increase community presence,develop leadership and ensure…

Civil Rights
3
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
4
Galeo Impact Fund Inc

Galeo impact fund strives for a better georgia where the latino community is respected and recognized, elected officials are held accountable, and georgians are engaged civically.

—
5
Georgia Strong Committee

Promote social welfare of Georgia communities through events that celebrate the history, culture, and constitutional framework of the state of Georgia, and educating opinion leaders and the public on on economic development in Georgia and…

—
6
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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7
Collective Renaissance Action

The mission of the collective renaissance guild is to educate, inform and train young leaders to build community and serve black communities and communities across the globe. we do this by elevating blac

Civil Rights
8
Georgia Organics Inc

Georgia Organics invests in organic farmers for the health of our communities and the land.

Environment
9
Collective Renaissance Guild

The mission of the collective renaissance guild is to educate, inform and train young leaders to build community and serve black communities and communities across the globe. we do this by elevating blac

Arts & Culture
10
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
11
American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations Georgia S

To promote the rights of workers and have representation before management.

—
12
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc

To protect and empower immigrant survivors of crime and persecution.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Shift Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sowega Rising. 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

30 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. 30 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
13/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Pan Asian Community Services: $335,000 · OtherCenter for Pan Asian Community ServicesGEORGIA SHIFT INC: $70,000 · OtherGEORGIA SHIFT INC9to5 Georgia: $35,000 · Other9to5 GeorgiaSmall Business Majority: $25,000 · OtherSTEP UP SAVANNAH INC: $25,000 · Other+12 more: $161,100 · Other+12 moreSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOU…Sowega Rising: $22,000 · Community ImprovementSowega Rising+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $125,000 · ReligionFAITH IN P…GEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $88,000 · HealthGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $30,800 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBarred Business Foundation: $10,718 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMigrant Equity Southeast Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED: $26,000 · EducationHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC: $16,000 · EducationAsian American Voices for Education Inc: $15,000 · EducationPTA Georgia Congress: $10,300 · EducationCOLUMBUS LITERATE COMMUNITY PROGRAM: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyLatino Community Fund Inc: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$651,100Community Improvement$347,000Religion$125,000Health$88,000Human Services$81,518Education$77,300Philanthropy$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Pan Asian Community Services: $335,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $88,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGIA SHIFT INC: $70,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $30,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED: $26,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSTEP UP SAVANNAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSowega Rising: $22,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBlack Child Development Institute - Atlanta Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOS VECINOS DE BUFORD HIGHWAY: $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian American Voices for Education Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $14,100 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAlternate RootsInc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBarred Business Foundation: $10,718 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPTA Georgia Congress: $10,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERFAITH CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGEORGIA WAND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS LITERATE COMMUNITY PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMigrant Equity Southeast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Windward FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationProgeorgia State Tabl…Annie E Casey Foundat…NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundGeorgia Power Foundat…Georgia Alliance Educ…Georgia Health Initia…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA38.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Progeorgia State Table Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc · Georgia Health Initiative Inc

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 Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    10report 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
    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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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