Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA APPLESEED INC
GEORGIA APPLESEED INC (Georgia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,434,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,013,250). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Georgia Appleseed Inc does
Mission
The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with children, youth, and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Service 1: School Justice (Systems Change):Georgia Appleseed works to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline through systems change that helps schools keep students in class, supported, and learning. We focus on school climate, access to school-based behavioral health supports, fair discipline practices, and reducing barriers that contribute to chronic absenteeismespecially for students in poverty, with disabilities, or otherwise facing discrimination or instability.Key activities and achievements:-Supported improvements in state and agency policies affecting school safety, student supports, attendance, and school climate.-Trained 1,100+ parents, educators, and youth-serving professionals to advocate effectively for children.-Convened and facilitated the Georgia Education Climate Coalition to align partners and advance shared solutions for student wellbeing and learning conditions.-Produced and disseminated multilingual guidance and toolkits to improve access to student supports and best practices.-Since our targeted school justice efforts began in 2010, there have been an estimated ~400,000 fewer out-ofschool suspensions associated with these efforts.
$623,365 spent53% of program spendingProgram service 2: fair (direct student advocacy and support):through fair (fairness, advocacy, individualized representation), georgia appleseedconnects students and families with attorneys and trained advocates to secureeducational and behavioral supports that help children remain in school and succeed.key activities and achievements:-expanded our statewide referral and support program for students needing helpnavigating school discipline processes and accessing appropriate services andprotections.-helped students secure supports that stabilize school placement and improveattendance and engagement.-restored approximately 16,000+ school days for referred students during the year bypreventing unnecessary school exclusion and securing needed supports. (fair protectsan average of 122 school days per student.)
$352,848 spent30% of program spendingProgram Service 3: Housing Justice:Georgia Appleseeds Housing Justice initiative advances reforms that help children and families access healthy,stable housing. We facilitate collaborations, develop policy solutions, and equip communities with practical tools to reduce unsafe housing conditions and prevent housing instability that disrupts childrens education and wellbeing.Key activities and achievements:-Convened the Georgia Healthy Housing Coalition and developed Georgias first 10-year Strategic Housing Advocacy Plan.-Advanced housing protections and habitability standards affecting children and families statewide, and developed guides to assist judges in their implementation.-Produced educational materials and delivered tenant workshops to help families understand housing rights and available supports.-Expanded an eviction diversion program that has protected 3,000+ families from homelessness in one metro county.
$199,947 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,176,160.
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 $1.7M to $3.4M (+101%).
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 4% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GEORGIA APPLESEED INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Eric Fisher
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $164k → $701k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 GEORGIA APPLESEED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
GEORGIA APPLESEED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 GEORGIA APPLESEED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 54% · 2019 40% · 2020 19% · 2021 47% · 2022 41% · 2023 25% — 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
52% of GEORGIA APPLESEED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of GEORGIA APPLESEED 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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GEORGIA APPLESEED INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGIA APPLESEED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$11k
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 GEORGIA APPLESEED 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 GEORGIA APPLESEED 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 GEORGIA APPLESEED INC?
- GEORGIA APPLESEED INC (Georgia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,434,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,013,250). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA APPLESEED INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $6,434,569 in grants to GEORGIA APPLESEED INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA APPLESEED INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,013,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA APPLESEED 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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