Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,673,231 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC OLGA GOIZUETA RAWLS CHAIRMAN & CEO ($8,950,000). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- The McAliley Endowment Trustportfolio match
- The Atlanta Womens Foundation Incshared funderslocal
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.
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 3% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 82 funders, grant income rose $506k → $5.2M.
12 of 182 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 182 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 49% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 50% — 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
45% of ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
90% of ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 182 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalGA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 85 organizations near you
- The McAliley Endowment Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Atlanta Womens Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you
- J B Fuqua Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you
- Bobbie Bailey Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Hertz Douglas J Family Foundationshared fundersGA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Mainshared fundersMO · backs 96 organizations that share your funders
- Tr Uw Charles I Brananshared fundersMO · backs 127 organizations that share your funders
- Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009shared funderslocalIL · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 94 organizations near you
- Jesse Parker Williams Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundationshared funderslocalGA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
- The Waterfall Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 115 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$544k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$495k
- National Archives and Records Administration$138k
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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Mmhahs LLC · disregarded
- made by us llc · disregarded
- Thorton-Venable Charitable Trust · corp_trust
- Pt Schutze Endowment Fund · corp_trust
- Lucy Rucker Aiken Fund · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,673,231 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC OLGA GOIZUETA RAWLS CHAIRMAN & CEO ($8,950,000). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 182 organizations giving $34,673,231 in grants to ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC OLGA GOIZUETA RAWLS CHAIRMAN & CEO is the largest funder on record, with $8,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 182funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing