Georgia · Nonprofit
CARES INC
CARES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,377 to it, the largest being Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc ($196,493). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $540k
- Net assets
- $897k
What Cares Inc does
Mission
To provide food and essential non-food items, temporary financial assistance and resource counseling to needy people in pickens county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cares Inc has provided a basic good quanity of quality food to over 200 pickens county families per week to all who have come to us with a demonstrated need and qualified by filing proper applications and being counseled about their life and how they can help themselves as we help them bridge the gap temporarily until they recover. We have practiced due diligence in follow up and caring for the family with particular concern for under girding the children of these families. During our fiscal year we have enforced policies regarding eligibilty and intervention whereby after counseling and on a case by case basis, cares providing food to all according to our policy passed by the board previously. The majority of the recipients receive food every two weeks but 40% of our clients still receive food weekly. $21,399 in donated services not reflected in above total.
$875,003 spentof which $77,805 as grants91% of program spendingCares Inc provides emergency and temporary financial assistance to those who apply to us and whom we find have a need to under gird the family and protect the children. We are helping them to make it through a tough time financially to prevent homelessness. We will pay part of utility bills and medications once per year and only a certain amount normally.during our fiscal year we counseled everyone who called or applied and helped those who were most needy whenever possible. We gave over $59,000 to supplement emergency needs of basic living. Cares now requires those receiving financial assistance to work at two specified non-profit charities one hour for each $25 received as per our policy described as working for money. $55,563 in donated services not reflected in above totals.
$87,056 spentof which $87,056 as grants9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $962,059.
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 2021 to 2022, from $634k to $739k (+17%).
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.
97% of CARES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Christine Vanderwalt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $104k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CARES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CARES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 CARES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 60% · 2019 63% · 2020 31% · 2021 93% · 2022 67% · 2023 58% — 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
30% of CARES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
72% of CARES 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. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CARES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARES 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARES INC?
- CARES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,377 to it, the largest being Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc ($196,493). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $540,377 in grants to CARES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARES INC?
- Pickens Co Community Resource Assoc Inc is the largest funder on record, with $196,493 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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