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Georgia Research Alliance Inc

To allow business, research universities and state government to collaborate to build a technology-driven economy fueled by innovative university research.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$174,842
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,009,410
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Georgia Research Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$2.5M13%
FY202415$9.4M67%
FY20238$3.3M13%
FY202210$10M40%
FY20217$3.3M0%
FY20208$2.3M25%
FY20199$4.8M11%
FY201814$5.4M64%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$28MHealth$10MEducation$8.2MCommunity Improvement$475kArts & Culture$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$13,689,09791%
Dekalb Medical Center$8,694,55270%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$5,011,21971%
Emory University$3,172,17920%
The University of Georgia Foundation$2,546,30540%
Augusta University$2,438,7768n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$1,063,84222%
Georgia Institute of Technology$750,0001n/a
Morehouse School of Medicine$545,00030%
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc$330,55731%
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All grantees of Georgia Research Alliance Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$13,689,09791%
Dekalb Medical Center$8,694,55270%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$5,011,21971%
Emory University$3,172,17920%
The University of Georgia Foundation$2,546,30540%
Augusta University$2,438,7768n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$1,063,84222%
Georgia Institute of Technology$750,0001n/a
Morehouse School of Medicine$545,00030%
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc$330,55731%
Clark Atlanta University Inc$218,86450%
Shepherd Center Inc$140,00010%
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc$124,23010%
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte$51,7001n/a
The Corporation of Mercer University$50,00010%
Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education Inc$50,0001n/a
Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc$25,00010%

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Georgia Research Alliance Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgia Tech Research Corporation: $13,689,097 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDekalb Medical Center: $8,694,552 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $5,011,219 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEmory University: $3,172,179 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Georgia Foundation: $2,546,305 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $1,063,842 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMorehouse School of Medicine: $545,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc: $330,557 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $218,864 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd Center Inc: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Research Foundation Inc: $124,230 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Corporation of Mercer University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Emory UniversityGA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Georgia Research Alliance Inc

How much does Georgia Research Alliance Inc give?
Georgia Research Alliance Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $2,523,527, out of $5,647,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Georgia Research Alliance Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (60%), Health (22%), Education (17%).
Who are Georgia Research Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Tech Research Corporation ($14M), Dekalb Medical Center ($8.7M), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ($5.0M).
Does Georgia Research Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Georgia Research Alliance Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Emory University.
Where is Georgia Research Alliance Inc based?
Georgia Research Alliance Inc is based in GA.

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 40 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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