Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC
ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $881,443 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($244,868). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $881k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Atlanta Civic Circle Inc does
Mission
The Atlanta Civic Circle is nonprofit civic journalism that takes deep dives on newsworthy topics affecting Atlanta and the region; provides tools and resources to help the community learn more about the issues; and equips readers with information on how they can get involved. ACC will serve as a place where the community comes together - both online and in-person - to discuss the issues and foster civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Atlanta Civic Circle directly funds professional journalists and journalism projects and is committed to developing best practices and fair compensation for reporters. We currently have two journalists and three staff members working to advance our two first focus areas. In addition to reporting the issues, jounralists will explore solutions and resources for readers to effect change. Both articles and resources are free for the public and other media outlets to use for educational purposes. Online engagement around articles and resources has created action in our community to help relocated families in need of better affordable housing options; educated first-time voters; and brought leaders from the region around these topics.This year, at Atlanta Civic Circle we added a new focus area to provide additional resources and education around democracy. In light of the divided political landscape, Atlanta Civic Circle identified a critical need to help our readers learn about voting, legislation, engagement, and the democratic process of elections. We partnered with Georgia Humanities to identify how news and media have an impact on the public's view of democracy, and how nonpartisan…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $117k (+636%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $150k → $63k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 CIVIC CIRCLE 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
ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 CIVIC CIRCLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 53% · 2022 22% · 2023 64% — 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
40% of ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 46% 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
83% of ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $383k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE 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
91% 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 ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE 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 ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC?
- ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $881,443 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($244,868). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $881,443 in grants to ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $244,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2019–2021), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing