Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (Georgia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,112 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $50M
What Atlanta International School does
Mission
The mission at Atlanta International School is to develop courageous leaders who shape their world for the better. At our core is creating a joy of learning and purposeful effort, and mutual respect and understanding, in an inclusive and intercultural community. We create a safe, stimulating educational environment, promoting the wonder and curiosity that motivates a student to learn in and beyond the classroom, and throughout life. We believe that achievement comes from sustained, purposeful effort and by learning to think critically, debate confidently, question assumptions and push limits. We believe language and culture shape and inform identity. We delight in difference, opening ourselves to authentic and meaningful interactions with cultures both in and outside school. We commit ourselves to grow and change individually and together, to ensure every learner's identity, language, and values are respected. To lead as individuals and as members of their communities, future-ready you
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Atlanta International School was founded in 1984 by a group of parents, international educators and members of the business community whose aim was to provide the atlanta area with the kind of international educational opportunities found in major cities throughout the world. Support from major corporations and public figures was obtained because of the school's importance in the development of atlanta as the premier international city in the southeastern united states. The school opened in september 1985 with 51 students, pre-kindergarten through first grade, in three language tracks: english plus french, german, or spanish. Ais moved to its current home, a 1920's era building on the national register of historic places, in the buckhead area of atlanta. During school year 2024-2025, enrollment was approximately 1,341 students in grades 3k-12. Over 90 countries around the world are represented in our school community of students, faculty, staff and parents. Ais is one of only a handful of schools in the united states authorized to offer international baccalaureate programs for primary, middle school and upper school students. Primary students follow a bilingual curriculum until…
$47,047,209 spentof which $4,491,342 as grants$48,340,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,047,209.
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.
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 $80M to $111M (+38%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Shelley Giberson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $347k → $284k.
17 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 56% · 2021 55% · 2022 88% · 2023 32% — 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
33% of ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
82% of ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 1 related entity
- 301 Delmont LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (Georgia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,112 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,498,112 in grants to ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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