Georgia · Nonprofit
DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED
DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,685,224 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Deep Center Incorporated does
Mission
Deep center's mission is to empower savannah's young people to thrive as learners,community leaders and agents of change.through creative writing, cultural production, and art, deep center creates platforms for the city's youth and the village of support around them, including their families and adult allies, to share stories, engage in debates, and make savannah a more just and equitable place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult training - deep center's adult training program worked in partner schools in the district to build supportive relationships with teachers and administrators toward the goal of shifting school culture toward more restorative practices and policies for both students and educators. In the summer of 2025 deep held the 5th annual deep writing project, with 10 local teachers, as the only national writing project (nwp) site based in a community organization. The mission of nwp is to focus on knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on a sustained effort to improve writing and learning for teacher's and students
$218,444 spent23% of program spendingYoung author project - deep center's introductory creative writing literacy program served 307 youth with workshops held in 13 public middle schools. In 2025, 30 skilled adult writers mentored youth and allowed them the chance to write, revise, illustrate, and publish their writing in 6 anthologies. The books were launched at two public events where youth read their work to an audience representing the diversity of savannah.
$186,794 spent20% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy - the policy and advocacy program's 2025 focus was on building community member's understanding of organizing and movement building practices through workshops, listening sessions, and the creation and distribution of a 2025 policy brief. Data collection on the impact of the criminal legal system was generated via interviews with local individuals to support the policy brief, and advocacy for systems-impacted individuals.
$128,651 spent14% of program spendingAll other programs
$402,671 spent43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $936,560.
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 $1.7M to $2.2M (+34%).
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 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 19% · 2024 31% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Bernadette Ball Oliver
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $321k → $1.0M.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 63% · 2019 36% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 21% — 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
42% of DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$1.2M
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 DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: 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 DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED?
- DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,685,224 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $6,685,224 in grants to DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED 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 51 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