Georgia · Nonprofit
Atlanta Festival Academy Inc
Atlanta Festival Academy Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,061 to it, the largest being CHEN-LIN EDUCATION CULTURE FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Atlanta Festival Academy Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide cultural education and exchange programs for young musicians and artists around the world through performances, lectures and competitions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, our organization accomplished the following:- Hosted the 2025 AFA Summer Festival, providing intensive classical music training to pre-college string, wind, brass, and percussion students through the Chamber Music Seminar and Orchestra Intensive programs- Awarded need-based and merit-based scholarships totaling approximately $40,000 to eligible Summer Festival and Virtuosi participants- Held inaugural AFA Young Artist Competition, attracting 90+ applicants from 17 states and 6 countries. The live semi-final and final rounds took place in Johns Creek with 25 young musicians from all over the U.S, Hong Kong, and the U.K.- Continued the Atlanta Festival Virtuosi (AFV) year-round youth orchestra program for elite students ages 1318- Delivered masterclasses, coachings, and in-school programming to approximately 250 students through AFA's outreach initiatives- Reached a cumulative total of over 500 student participants in AFA programs since the organization's founding in 2019
$112,001 spent$53,219 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $112,001.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $9k to $87k (+881%).
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.
18% of Atlanta Festival Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Festival Academy 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 Festival Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Atlanta Festival Academy 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. $61 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
Atlanta Festival Academy Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Atlanta Festival Academy 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Festival Academy 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 Festival Academy Inc?
- Atlanta Festival Academy Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,061 to it, the largest being CHEN-LIN EDUCATION CULTURE FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Atlanta Festival Academy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,061 in grants to Atlanta Festival Academy Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlanta Festival Academy Inc?
- CHEN-LIN EDUCATION CULTURE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlanta Festival Academy 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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