Georgia · Nonprofit
COMMON GOOD ATLANTA
COMMON GOOD ATLANTA (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,766,830 to it, the largest being Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $250k
What Common Good Atlanta does
Mission
Common Good Atlanta provides incarcerated people with broad, democratic access to higher education so they can develop a better understanding of both themselves and the societal forces at work around them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Common Good Atlanta's 2024 Program Accomplishments:Welcomed New Leadership Tiffany Kirk appointed Executive Director Christopher Gleason named Director of Programs and PartnershipsExpanded Program Reach Delivered college courses across 5 correctional facilities and 3 transitional centers Served 152 students through 37 courses Provided over 10,000 hours of classroom instruction Launched New Academic Initiatives Introduced the Clemente Course in Humanities at Phillips State Prison Supported degree program expansion at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary through partnerships with Morehouse College and University of West Georgia Engaged 48 college professors in course deliveryRevived Creative and Literary Projects Relaunched the theater program at Burruss Correctional Facility, led by actor Wigasi Brant Published "Beyond Bars: A Journal of Literature and Art", the first prison journal edited by incarcerated individuals Revived "The Atlantian", a historic prison newspaper, in partnership with Page DukesReceived Notable Recognition and Support Selected as Atlanta News First's "3-Degree Guarantee" nonprofit, boosting visibility and funding Awarded the "BJA FY24 Second Chance Act Grant" to…
$325,504 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $325,504.
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. 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 $147k to $272k (+85%).
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.
100% of COMMON GOOD ATLANTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Paul Pendergrass
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $200 → $347k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COMMON GOOD ATLANTA’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
COMMON GOOD ATLANTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 55% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — 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
38% of COMMON GOOD ATLANTA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 65% 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
70% of COMMON GOOD ATLANTA's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMON GOOD ATLANTA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding COMMON GOOD ATLANTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $900k on record.
- Department of Justice$900k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMON GOOD ATLANTA
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COMMON GOOD ATLANTA: 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 COMMON GOOD ATLANTA?
- COMMON GOOD ATLANTA (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,766,830 to it, the largest being Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GOOD ATLANTA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,766,830 in grants to COMMON GOOD ATLANTA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GOOD ATLANTA?
- Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GOOD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 23 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