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Empty Stocking Fund Inc

Empty Stocking Fund Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,929,965 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($747,500). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$4.9M
Funders on record
107
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$3.7M
64/107 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Empty Stocking Fund Inc does

Mission

The empty stocking fund (esf) brings joy to the lives of disadvantaged children by providing toys and gifts during the holiday season and other core essential supplies throughout the year to support positive social and emotional development and academic success.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Established in 1927, The Empty Stocking Fund (ESF) is a cornerstone of Atlanta's philanthropic community. While originally founded to bring joy to children during the holiday season, ESF has evolved into a year-round 501(c)(3) bridging the resource gap for low-income families and under-resourced educators across the metropolitan area. ESF operates with a dual focus: ensuring every child experiences the dignity of the holidays and every student has the tools to succeed in the classroom. We accomplish our mission through three programs: 1. Support for Families during the Christmas and Holiday Season: This past December, ESF served 27,000+ children from over 10,000 families, providing gifts that promote joy, dignity, and inclusion. No organization in Georgia has the infrastructure or capacity to meet at this high level of need. 2. Teacher Resource Center (TRC): ESF operates the largest TRC in Georgia, supporting Title I educators. Last year over 4,000 teachers "shopped" for up to $500 worth of classroom supplies and essentials. With over 9,000 teachers currently on their waiting list, ESF is aggressively scaling its operations to ensure no classroom in the Greater Atlanta area goes…

    $3,607,597 spentof which $2,866,480 as grants$170,690 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,607,597.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.1M) Expenses 89 ($997k) Net assets 106 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.2M) Expenses 87 ($980k) Net assets 118 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 217 ($2.4M) Expenses 138 ($1.6M) Net assets 158 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 226 ($2.5M) Expenses 186 ($2.1M) Net assets 210 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 194 ($2.2M) Expenses 213 ($2.4M) Net assets 199 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 197 ($2.2M) Expenses 243 ($2.7M) Net assets 161 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 192 ($2.2M) Expenses 219 ($2.5M) Net assets 158 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 270 ($3.0M) Expenses 244 ($2.7M) Net assets 172 ($2.9M)2026 Revenue 437 ($4.9M) Expenses 355 ($4.0M) Net assets 225 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (437)Expenses (355)Net assets (225)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.6M to $3.6M (+35%).

$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.6M
$3.6M
$3.4M
$3.7M
$3.4M
$3.6M
$4.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$113k
’18
$180k
’19
$877k
’20
$437k
’21
−$231k
’22
−$531k
’23
−$312k
’24
$282k
’25
$895k
’26
1.3
months of
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

Gregory Hill

Executive Director

Board chair

Brian Nealon

Chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed26222321202519202317
Joined·+1+4+1+0+10+1+7+3+2
No longer listed·533157608
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $157k → $543k.

14 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Empty Stocking Fund Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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

Empty Stocking Fund Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

60% 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 Empty Stocking Fund Inc.

19%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 30% · 2019 43% · 2020 15% · 2021 18% · 2022 14% · 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

50% of Empty Stocking Fund Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of Empty Stocking Fund Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

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MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
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GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Empty Stocking Fund 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc?
Empty Stocking Fund Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,929,965 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($747,500). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Empty Stocking Fund Inc have?
IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $3,929,965 in grants to Empty Stocking Fund Inc, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Empty Stocking Fund Inc?
THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund is the largest funder on record, with $747,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Empty Stocking Fund 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 107 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing