Georgia · Nonprofit
DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC
DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,635 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ($32,635). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $183k
What Dawson County Family Connection Inc does
Mission
All children in dawson county will have the opportunity to become successful, contributing, productive and self-sustaining adults by providing leadership through collaboration with all segments of the community for the well being of families and children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The family stability initiative is focused on children and families with outcomes that will reduce child abuse and neglect. It also focuses on supporting kinship care and foster families. This includes: the family stability strategy team, comprised of key stakeholders within the community, to evaluate the risk factors associated with child abuse/neglect and create a blue print of how to address those identified risks in order to improve family stability; annual meet and greet for school staff and key community stakeholders; the foster family association/support group;promotion of community advocacy for foster families along with other outreach events.
$63,672 spent40% of program spendingMental wellness program contains several strategies of service. The organization facilitated the creation, and continues to faciliate, a mental wellness coalition. This coalition is comprised of many agencies who seek to assess and address the needs of our community. Some of the activities include the organizations suicide prevention campaign, mental health awareness month campaign, the development of a youth mental wellness coalition, creation of a mental wellness brochure, community assessment, homeless resource card, annual teen maze, secondary traumatic stress training, monthly mental wellness webinars, and a resource fair event.
$63,672 spent40% of program spendingBroaden community partnerships and strengthen community collaboration to help meet the needs of dawson county children and their families in a timely, effective, and caring manner.
$31,835 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,179.
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 $168k to $186k (+11%).
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: 2017 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 74% · 2023 74% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
John Cronan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $9k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION 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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION 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
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dawson County · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION 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 DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC?
- DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,635 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ($32,635). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,635 in grants to DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC?
- UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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