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BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA

BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,227,229 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($536,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$4.3M
35/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Breakthrough Atlanta does

Mission

Breakthrough Atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational leaders.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. High school readiness prepares middle school students for the academic rigor of high school through a six-week summer learning program, and saturday enrichment programming is implemented by a program director, asssisted by two program managers, approximately 70 seasonal staff and volunteers, and bus drivers.

    $849,475 spent
    51% of program spending
  2. The teaching fellowship program provides a paid summer internship for undergraduate students interested in exploring a career in teaching. Teaching fellows serve as the instructors for middle school students during breakthrough's six-week summer learning program. They receive intensive, ongoing training and mentoring from professional educators through their fellowships. This program is led by a program director, assisted by a program manager, and 10 seasonal instructional coaches.

    $448,407 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. College prep programming helps high school students and their parents prepare for college admissions through educational workshops, college tours and fairs, college entrance exam preparation, personalized college counseling, application assistance and scholarship opportunities. These activities are implemented by a program director and manager, assisted by vendors. Activities can occur virtually (e.g. A counselling session) or in person (e.g. College tour or financial aid workshop).

    $356,193 spentof which $38,561 as grants
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,654,075.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($753k) Expenses 100 ($400k) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 157 ($1.2M) Expenses 263 ($1.1M) Net assets 121 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 153 ($1.1M) Expenses 293 ($1.2M) Net assets 107 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 290 ($2.2M) Expenses 357 ($1.4M) Net assets 115 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 279 ($2.1M) Expenses 473 ($1.9M) Net assets 127 ($5.1M)2025 Revenue 157 ($1.2M) Expenses 561 ($2.2M) Net assets 106 ($4.3M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (157)Expenses (561)Net assets (106)Peer revenue range

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 $4.9M to $6.3M (+27%).

$4.0M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$6.3M
$5.7M
$4.6M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 4% · 2024 15% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$354k
’20
$128k
’21
−$22k
’22
$760k
’23
$213k
’24
−$1.1M
’25
1.4
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

Monique Shields

CEO & CFO

Board chair

Neysa Dillon Brown

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed222519222121
Joined·+3+0+6+4+4
No longer listed·06354
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $229k → $650k.

7 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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

BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

26% 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 BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA.

17%
largest funder
39%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 34% · 2019 37% · 2020 63% · 2021 40% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.

“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

36% of BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

88% of BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

MN
NY
WY
SD
OH
CA
MO
DE
TN
SC
GA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−89% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 10%Fundraising 16%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Lovett School · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA?
BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,227,229 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($536,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $3,227,229 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA?
THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $536,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 70 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