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Georgia Charter School Association Inc

The georgia charter schools association supports, fosters, and advocates for the development of high quality public charter schools and networks that improve opportunities for georgia students.

$265k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$985k
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $210,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $265,094 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,094 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 · FY2020

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIAN KING LIBERATION ACADEMY$80,000
MARCUS HARDEN ACE ACADEMY LLC$80,000
FOOTHILLS EDUCATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
CHARLES DREW CHARTER SCHOOL$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOOTHILLS EDUCATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 7%MARCUS HARDEN ACE ACADEMY LLC: $80k → 13%THE MUSEUM SCHOOL OF AVONDALE: $30k → 14%PATAULA CHARTER ACADEMY INC: $75k → 34%BRIAN KING LIBERATION ACADEMY: $80k → 13%LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $30k → 14%ATLANTA DREAM ACADEMY: $75k → 13%CHARLES DREW CHARTER SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AMANA ACADEMY: $75k → 13%DEKALB PATH ACADEMY: $50k → 14%ATLANTA SMART ACADEMY: $75k → 13%KIPP METRO ATLANTA COLLABORATIVE INC: $50k → 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 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
The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education
2
Academy of Collaborative Education

Public charter school

Education
3
Vision Academy Charter School

The mission of vision academy charter school is to prepare students in kindergarten through 8th grade to become responsible and articulate students and citizens by using a comprehensive curriculum designed to foster academic success and…

Education
4
Georgia Accelerated Career Academy Inc

Public Charter School

Education
5
American Leadership Academy

To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.

Education
6
Alliance Charter Academy

Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.

Education
7
Americas Finest Charter School

We are committed to academic excellence by vigorously engaging students in a rigorous, student-centered learning environment that will foster the development of global citizens.

Education
8
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
9
Academy Charter School

Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.

Education
10
Multicultural Academy Charter School

It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…

Education
11
Ambition Preparatory Charter School

Through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work, ambition preparatory charter school ensures that all students in kindergarten through grade eight have academic skills and self-discipline for college and life…

Education
12
International Charter School of Atlanta Inc

To operate under the charter with the state charter school commision of georgia to provide educational services to students from kingergarten to eight grade.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drew Charter School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Avondale Education Association Inc Dba the Museum School of Avondale Estates. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACE ACADEMY: $80,000 · EducationACE ACADEMYLIBERATION ACADEMY: $80,000 · EducationLIBERATION ACADEMYAMANA ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · EducationAMANA ACADEMY INCATLANTA DREAM ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · EducationATLANTA DREAM ACADEMY INCATLANTA SMART ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · EducationATLANTA SMART ACADEMY INCPATAULA CHARTER ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationPATAULA CHARTER ACADEMYKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $50,000 · EducationKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative IncDEKALB PATH ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · EducationDEKALB PATH ACADEMY INCLEADERSHIP PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationGEORGIA LEADS ON EDUCATION: $315,000 · OtherGEORGIA LEADS ON EDUCATIONAvondale Education Association Inc DBA The Museum School of Avondale Estates: $30,000 · OtherAvondale Education Association Inc DBA The…FOOTHILLS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherFOOTHILLS EDUCATION CENTER INC
Education$615,000Other$370,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACE ACADEMY: $80,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIBERATION ACADEMY: $80,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetAMANA ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetATLANTA DREAM ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPATAULA CHARTER ACADEMY: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEKALB PATH ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAvondale Education Association Inc DBA The Museum School of Avondale Estates: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Every Student Every C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Every Student Every Community Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Georgia Charter School Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Georgia Charter School Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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