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Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE RESSLERGERTZ FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$2.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc does

Mission

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a bias for action and is committed to accomplishing this mission in the most effective way possible. Accordingly, the ACP operates based on the following principles:1. Focus principally on the city of Atlanta but coordinate its activities with other organizations to ensure maximum impact for the region as a whole.2. Focus on a limited number of issues critical to economic development.3. Work through existing organizations to accomplish its goals whenever possible.4. Address issues with analytical rigor, including the use of clear work plans, metrics, milestones, and deadlines.5. Make decisions through its board of directors, a member only body (no substitutes) consisting of Chief executive-level position.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To collaborate with the City of Atlanta, Atlanta Technical College and Atlanta Public Schools and various other public and private institutions in order to advise on and support economic development; fiscal accountability; infrastructure and transportation; K-12 public education; technology and innovation; and culture/quality of life for all citizens of Atlanta.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($745k) Net assets 100 ($834k)2018 Revenue 111 ($1.5M) Expenses 137 ($1.0M) Net assets 152 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 89 ($1.2M) Expenses 143 ($1.1M) Net assets 166 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 197 ($1.5M) Net assets 150 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 118 ($1.6M) Expenses 220 ($1.6M) Net assets 140 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 133 ($1.8M) Expenses 234 ($1.7M) Net assets 142 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 111 ($825k) Net assets 203 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 139 ($1.8M) Expenses 186 ($1.4M) Net assets 257 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (186)Net assets (257)

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 $1.2M to $1.7M (+46%).

$836k
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.7M
$2.1M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$575k
’17
$438k
’18
$109k
’19
−$128k
’20
−$88k
’21
$18k
’22
$515k
’23
$446k
’24
17
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.

Chief executive

Kathy Waller

Executive Director

Board chair

Michael Russell

Chair Person

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed3839404141444242
Joined·+9+3+9+5+7+1+7
No longer listed·8285437
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $35k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $456k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Atlanta Committee for Progress 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.

Where its funders are

Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.

CA

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

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’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Atlanta Committee for Progress 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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

39
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc?
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE RESSLERGERTZ FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc?
THE RESSLERGERTZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Atlanta Committee for Progress 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 1 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