Georgia · Nonprofit
ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC
ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,740 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($431,643). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $666k
- Net assets
- $702k
What Athens Area Homeless Shelter Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Athens Area Homeless Shelter Inc is to provide comprehensive services to homeless individuals and families working toward sustainable independence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, athens area homeless shelter served dozens of families experiencing homelessness across clarke and surrounding counties including walton, jackson, oconee, oglethorpe, greene, barrow, and madison. Through our almost home emergency shelter, we provided up to 45 days of shelter, childcare, and intensive case management to 53 parents and 86 children, with over 80% of families exiting to stable housing. Our bridge to home transitional housing program supported 9 parents and 20 children for up to two years while parents pursued education or career training, resulting in program graduations including ged, cna, and lpn certifications and increased family income. The going homeprogram assisted 27 parents and 44 children with rental assistance and case management to secure and sustain permanent housing. Finally, our strengthening home program offered 68 family support sessions including therapeutic playgroups, tutoring, and enrichment activities to promote healthy development and family stability. Together, these programs provided safe housing, educational advancement, and long-term stability for families working to overcome homelessness in northeast georgia.
$930,256 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $930,256.
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 $1.0M to $1.8M (+80%).
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: 2017 83% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 30% · 2021 45% · 2022 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Amy Baer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $39k.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER 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
ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 35% · 2019 76% · 2020 29% · 2021 63% · 2022 76% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER 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 $196k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC?
- ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,740 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($431,643). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $665,740 in grants to ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC?
- Athens Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $431,643 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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