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ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC

ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,382,878 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($705,750). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$1.1M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$59k
24/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc does

Mission

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

The following program outcomes were achieved in 2020: Number of clients: Enrolled 151, Graduated 151, Empoyed 85.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($900k) Expenses 100 ($888k) Net assets -435 ($-78524)2018 Revenue 94 ($849k) Expenses 95 ($848k) Net assets -419 ($-75600)2019 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($18k)2020 Revenue 127 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($1.1M) Net assets 327 ($59k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (127)Expenses (124)Net assets (327)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $189k to $443k (+135%).

$209k
$189k
$443k
$426k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

41% of ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$943
’18
$64k
’19
$41k
’20
2.5
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed20181514
Joined·+4+7+0
No longer listed·6101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $147k → $582k.

4 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC.

21%
largest funder
52%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 49% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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

79% of ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 13 states in all.

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MO
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC has grown faster than half of the 1,296 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,296 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2020

Government funding ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.

Federal$3.3M
grants $3.3Mcontracts $0
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24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$3.3M

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 ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC?
ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,382,878 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($705,750). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,382,878 in grants to ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $705,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 35 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