Georgia · Nonprofit
GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC
GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,406,689 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($4,712,754). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Geears the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students Inc does
Mission
To support high quality early learning and healthy development for georgia's youngest children from birth to five, by championing policies, promoting innovative and evidence-based practices and building public will.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Geears: the georgia early alliance for ready students operates to inspire and provide leadership for a statewide movement on quality early learning and healthy development for all children ages birth through five. Geears vision is, by 2021, all students will enter kindergarten prepared to succeed and on a path to read to learn by third grade.through our public awareness campaign for quality rated childcare, geears strives to create widespread public awareness about tools that parents can use to identify high quality childcare providers through paid and earned traditional media, and social media.paact: promise all atlanta children thrive initiative works to coalesce stakeholders in atlanta to work together for better outcomes for children birth to 5 and their families.geears leads the mayor's summer reading club which provides literacy activities throughout the summer in metro atlanta and distributes 20,000 books per summer so that children have books to support building their vocabulary.geears convened and faciliated the atlanta early education leadership council, comprised of business, civic, education and philanthropic leaders in atlanta, to create a series of high-impact…
$2,509,953 spentof which $195,269 as grants$184,071 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,509,953.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $7.7M (+266%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Stephanie Blank
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $575k → $4.0M.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS 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
GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 65% · 2019 78% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 83% · 2023 77% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
79% of GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS 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. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC?
- GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,406,689 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($4,712,754). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $11,406,689 in grants to GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,712,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 24 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