Georgia · Nonprofit
DECATUR MAKERS INC
DECATUR MAKERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,979 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($45,550). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Decatur Makers Inc does
Mission
Decatur Makers is a community all-ages makerspace. Whether you're a tinkerer, artist, woodworker, engineer, sewer, welder, crafter, scientist, student, teacher, entrepreneur, or general dreamer and thinker, we'll empower you with new skills, a supportive & diverse community of fellow makers, and inspiring hands-on maker experiences. We welcome all makers regardless of background, race, gender, lifestyle, skill sets, experience, or age.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operations and occupancy - impacts all members (300+) and public. Provide space and staff support to host community and member meetings, builds and to provide dedicated space for individual programs such as woodworking, metalworking, electronics, arts and crafts, coding, electronics, etc.
$241,699 spent$291,020 earned by the program96% of program spendingClass expenses: Impacts all members and guests from the community. Provide instructor-led classes in areas of woodworking, electronics, welding, arts and crafts, etc.
$6,451 spent$15,816 earned by the program3% of program spendingOutreach: Impacts local and regional community. Partnerships with schools to provide STEAM programming both inside and outside of the space. Community projects provided PPE and desks to local individuals.
$4,365 spent$-629 earned by the program2% of program spendingPPP Loan Forgiveness
$0 spent$22,377 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,515.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $119k to $150k (+26%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of DECATUR MAKERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kalia Morrison
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 DECATUR MAKERS 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
DECATUR MAKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 DECATUR MAKERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 49% · 2022 27% · 2023 53% — 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 DECATUR MAKERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
DECATUR MAKERS INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DECATUR MAKERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DECATUR MAKERS 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
79% 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 DECATUR MAKERS 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 DECATUR MAKERS INC?
- DECATUR MAKERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,979 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($45,550). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DECATUR MAKERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $149,979 in grants to DECATUR MAKERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DECATUR MAKERS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DECATUR MAKERS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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