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GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC

GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,740 to it, the largest being Southern Center for Human Rights ($15,740). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$510k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$1.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Inc does

Mission

To promote fairness and justice through membership, education, services and support, public outreach, and a commitment to quality representation for all.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Continuing Education Seminars: Georgia lawyers are required to complete a specific number of continuing education hours each year to maintain their Bar license. In FY2023, GACDL produced five continuing education seminars focused on topics specifically relevant to the criminal legal system, practice, and procedure to help its members achieve their professional licensure education mandate while also promoting the common good of criminal defense. Specifically, those seminars included: - Winter - Jan 2024 - Spring - April 2024 - Trial Skills Training - Aug 2024 - Defending Cases with Mental Health Implications - Oct 2024 - Fall - Nov 2024

    $425,871 spent$176,894 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Membership, Generally: The following are included with membership in service and support of the GACDL community, particularly, and larger criminal legal system, more broadly: - Regular issues of a case law publication Whats the Decision? that highlights recent cases of import to or impact on the criminal legal system - Access to the GACDL Listserve where more than 1,000 members exchange practice, procedure, and general support for their litigation efforts, - Members-Only, website section that provides access to resources including template court pleadings,historical seminar materials, pattern jury charges, and expert witness contact information. - Networking with more than 1,200 other members, with a practice focus that includes free, temporary, emergency legal assistance for members who face punishment from the court as a result of their representation of a person facing prosecution in Georgia. - Committees through which members can formulate and express their positions on legislation, judicial appointments, amicus curiae briefs, and other matters affecting the administration of Georgias criminal legal system.

    $300,226 earned by the program

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $425,871.

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 ($505k) Expenses 100 ($475k) Net assets 100 ($652k)2018 Revenue 96 ($486k) Expenses 107 ($508k) Net assets 97 ($631k)2020 Revenue 98 ($493k) Expenses 92 ($437k) Net assets 165 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 82 ($417k) Expenses 98 ($467k) Net assets 157 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 106 ($534k) Expenses 126 ($598k) Net assets 147 ($961k)2023 Revenue 101 ($512k) Expenses 135 ($642k) Net assets 139 ($906k)2024 Revenue 101 ($510k) Expenses 107 ($508k) Net assets 167 ($1.1M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (101)Expenses (107)Net assets (167)

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 $920k to $1.1M (+19%).

$658k
$634k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$980k
$920k
$1.1M
2017201820202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
−$21k
’18
$56k
’20
−$50k
’21
−$65k
’22
−$130k
’23
$2k
’24
5.0
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.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed279896929890
Joined···+9+6+16+7
No longer listed···11101015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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In Georgia

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

89
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC?
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,740 to it, the largest being Southern Center for Human Rights ($15,740). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,740 in grants to GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC.
Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC?
Southern Center for Human Rights is the largest funder on record, with $15,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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