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Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc

Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$356k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$199k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc does

Mission

Autrey Mill Nature Preserves mission is to provide all the environmental, heritage and offer event programming to the public.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Programs Offered with an emphasis on Nature, Science and History. Children, scouts, families and adults attend classes, guided hikes, workshops, seasonal activities and school trips. Live animal Exhibits with a collection of reptiles and amphibians native to the area allow visitors to meet animals upclose and make a contribution with the natural world.

    $387,304 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $387,304.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($222k) Expenses 100 ($215k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2020 Revenue 82 ($183k) Expenses 81 ($175k) Net assets 110 ($98k)2021 Revenue 127 ($283k) Expenses 94 ($202k) Net assets 200 ($179k)2022 Revenue 158 ($352k) Expenses 132 ($285k) Net assets 276 ($247k)2023 Revenue 160 ($356k) Expenses 174 ($376k) Net assets 254 ($227k)2024 Revenue 160 ($356k) Expenses 178 ($383k) Net assets 223 ($199k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (160)Expenses (178)Net assets (223)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $179k to $247k (+38%).

$89k
$132k
$179k
$247k
$227k
$201k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’19
$9k
’20
$81k
’21
$68k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$28k
’24
6.3
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

Lizen Hayes

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

201920202021202220232024
Listed1412131196
Joined·+5+4+1+2+0
No longer listed·73343
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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

Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc.

44%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 90% · 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

77% of Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

NC
GA

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Autrey Mill Nature Preserve 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.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc?
Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $23,750 in grants to Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Autrey Mill Nature Preserve 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 8 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