Georgia · Nonprofit
Atlanta Speech School Inc
Atlanta Speech School Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266,650 to it, the largest being JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ($7,700,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 120
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $131M
What Atlanta Speech School Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Atlanta Speech School is to bring deep reading to each and every child so they can find their voice to determine their own future and make the greatest difference in the lives of others.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1938 as a free school to provide services for children who were deaf or hard of hearing, the modern-day Atlanta Speech School has evolved into the nation's foremost center for advancing language and literacy, providing a continuum of services from infancy through elementary school. As reflected below, the School functions as the educational equivalent of a teaching hospital. On campus, with a staff highly trained in the science of reading, we beat the odds against literacy for children with neurobiological differences (e.g. deafness, speech/language delays and dyslexia). The core purpose of our Rollins Center for Language & Literacy and its free and universally accessible online Cox Campus is to change the odds and break the cycle of illiteracy for all children whose families have experienced generational denied access to educational and economic opportunity.Our Vision Statement is Literacy and Justice for All. Following the legacy of our founder, the School has never turned away a child in need of our services because of their family's financial circumstances.The School has four academic divisions (our elementary school for children with dyslexia and three preschools),…
$19,421,674 spentof which $1,482,988 as grants$15,635,042 earned by the program65% of program spendingThe School's 22-year-old Rollins Center seeks to extend the social justice of literacy to children far beyond our physical campus. For that purpose, the Cox Campus, with more than 420,000 members from all 50 states and 138 countries, provides training for public health providers, families, and early childhood and elementary teachers on the definitive science of constructing each and every child's deep reading brain.-Cox Campus is the only free IDA-accredited pathway to literacy reform through the science of reading. -With an unmatched 92% course completion rate, the courses of Cox Campus are consistently reported by learners (e.g. Ohio teachers 95%+) to be excellent and significantly contributing to positive changes in classroom instruction practices.-In 2024, as Cox Campus celebrated its first decade, it reached the historic milestone of $100 million in economic impact with more than 668,000 courses completed by educators at no cost to their schools or districts. By the end of the 2025-26 school year with exponential growth, a total of more than 1.4 million courses had been completed, with the value now measuring more than $210 million.-The Atlanta Speech School, the Rollins…
$8,925,969 spent$104,531 earned by the program30% of program spendingThrough the Learning Hub, the School provides diagnostic, therapeutic and remediation services to both children and adults along the reading brain continuum. These services include Speech-Language (evaluation and therapy for children and adults); Occupational Therapy (pediatric therapy to address sensory integration, handwriting, or fine/gross motor difficulties); and tutoring (specialized individual or small group academic intervention for children struggling academically.)
$1,544,552 spentof which $55,484 as grants$595,142 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,892,195.
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 2023 to 2024, from $105M to $125M (+18%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of Atlanta Speech School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 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.
Chief executive
James Comer Yates
Executive Director
Board chair
Katie Michaels Post
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $623k → $6.1M.
17 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $23M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Atlanta Speech School Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Atlanta Speech School Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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 Speech School Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 25% · 2019 12% · 2020 25% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of Atlanta Speech School Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
81% of Atlanta Speech School 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. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Speech School Inc's funding base is broadening — from 31 funders to 48 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like Atlanta Speech School 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Literacy and Justice for All LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc?
- Atlanta Speech School Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266,650 to it, the largest being JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ($7,700,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Atlanta Speech School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $36,266,650 in grants to Atlanta Speech School Inc, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlanta Speech School Inc?
- JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlanta Speech School 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 120 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