Georgia · Nonprofit
AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC
AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,950 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Area Committee to Improve Opportunities Now Inc does
Mission
To help individuals and families break the cycle of poverty and achieve their greatest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weatherization services improved the affordability and safety of the housing of the most vulnerable citizens of our communities including senior citizens individuals with disabilities and families with young children by providing energy retrofit services.
$2,733,600 spent53% of program spendingA variety of services through the Community Services Block Grant were provided to meet the needs of individuals and families to reduce poverty. These included but were not limited to education and education-based training food rescue and delivery to nonprofits serving low-income individuals financial literacy budget training essential employment skills training youth education scholarships and mentored leadership training and financial crisis assistance.
$1,092,464 spentof which $67,117 as grants21% of program spending#1 DADS case management services provide training and mentoring services support to fathers to strengthen their relationships and or reunite them with their children and the childrens mothers. The program has a strong focus on healthy marriages and long-term reunification.
$446,023 spentof which $20,863 as grants9% of program spendingPathways Home 2
$102,007 spent$102,007 earned by the program2% of program spendingWIOA Special Populations
$323,508 spent$323,508 earned by the program6% of program spendingWIOA In-school youth
$152,363 spent$152,363 earned by the program3% of program spendingEmergency Food and Shelter
$13,335 spentof which $8,199 as grants$13,335 earned by the program0% of program spendingPrivately Funded Programs
$134,902 spentof which $38,333 as grants$82,663 earned by the program3% of program spendingDOJ Second Chance Youth Reentry
$200,231 spent$200,231 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,198,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $809k to $1.6M (+92%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Tommy Lyon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $12k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 70% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
86% of AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- Department of Labor$1.2M
- Department of Justice$784k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$75k
- Department of Agriculture$56k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC?
- AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,950 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $106,950 in grants to AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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