Georgia · Nonprofit
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,356,722 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($44,896,581). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Achieve Atlanta Inc does
Mission
Achieve atlanta envisions a future where atlanta is a city where race and income no longer predict postsecondary success and upward mobility. In service of this vision, achieve atlanta's mission is to help students access, afford, and earn postsecondary credentials. Achieve atlanta believes we must work across sectors to solve the complex problem of low-degree attainment. Therefore, achieve atlanta catalyzes and facilitates results-driven collaboration by setting a vision, assembling cross-sector teams, and creating conditions for success for students and their families. Our partnerships include atlanta public schools, 11 colleges and universities, and numerous nonprofit and community organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
College access - see schedule oachieve atlanta works with atlanta public schools and provides strategic, financial and operational support to design and implement a district-wide college advising program. As part of this effort, achieve atlanta has engaged the college advising corps to provide college advisers across all high schools to support 12th graders with the technical aspects of the college-going process (e.g., researching colleges, applying to college, registering for college entrance exams, applying for financial aid and scholarships). In addition, achieve atlanta has engaged onegoal, inc. To work with cohorts of students at various high schools through a credit-bearing elective course designed to build academic skills and teach students to anticipate and overcome roadblocks on the path to college graduation. Finally, achieve atlanta provides technical assistance, data analyses, and college access-related training to district, high school, and partner staff in support of the program. Since achieve atlanta's inception, significant gains have been made on all college access leading indicators and college enrollment rates have increased.
$2,841,091 spent46% of program spendingCollege affordability - see schedule oachieve atlanta works with atlanta public schools and its external partners to provide information, training and tools to ensure students can make informed decisions about college costs and access funding to support those costs. In addition, achieve atlanta provides the state's largest need-based scholarship to support atlanta public school students pursuing various postsecondary education paths after high school. For students attending a four-year college, the achieve atlanta scholarship is worth up to $5,000 per year (renewable for up to four years of school). For students attending a two-year or technical college, the award is up to $1,500 per year (renewable for up to two years of school). Achieve atlanta also provides emergency grants of up to $500 to support students faced with an unexpected financial need to allow them to stay on track in college, as well as completion grants for some students who have exhausted their achieve atlanta scholarship but need assistance to complete up to two more terms. These scholarships and grants are meant to help close the financial gaps students face in paying for college.
$1,828,663 spentof which $361,650 as grants30% of program spendingCollege success - see schedule oachieve atlanta has established formal relationships with several georgia colleges and universities to streamline advising and coaching services for atlanta public schools graduates attending one of these institutions. Achieve atlanta has also contracted with beyond 12 and edu-tech enterprises, two college success nonprofits, to provide coaching and advising to atlanta public school graduates while they are in college. In addition, achieve atlanta has developed a peer-ambassador program, established mental health supports and an emergency grant program, as well as hired a college coach fellow to provide targeted support to scholars in two-year and technical programs. Collectively, these efforts are intended to increase the rates of college persistence and completion for atlanta public school graduates. To date, achieve atlanta scholars are persisting and graduating year to year at similar rates to students of all income levels enrolled in the university system of georgia.
$1,500,659 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,170,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.0M to $14M (+189%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Claire Arnold
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $4.2M → $7.5M.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 89% · 2022 52% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
22% of ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.4M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC?
- ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,356,722 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($44,896,581). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $57,356,722 in grants to ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,896,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing