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Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc

Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,854 to it, the largest being University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates ($146,877). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$193k
Grants received
$7.2M
Net assets
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 85 ($1.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.3M) Net assets 106 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.3M) Expenses 95 ($1.1M) Net assets 113 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 124 ($1.8M) Expenses 95 ($1.1M) Net assets 130 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 98 ($1.4M) Expenses 89 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 63 ($929k) Expenses 47 ($557k) Net assets 112 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 77 ($1.1M) Expenses 67 ($807k) Net assets 129 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 163 ($2.4M) Expenses 132 ($1.6M) Net assets 164 ($6.4M)2025 Revenue 130 ($1.9M) Expenses 136 ($1.6M) Net assets 182 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (136)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$278k
17
$47k
18
$198k
19
$698k
20
$375k
21
$372k
22
$323k
23
$822k
24
$284k
25
3.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $40k → $17k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Georgia Highlands College Foundation 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

Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 Highlands College Foundation Inc.

76%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 93% · 2019 93% · 2020 90% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 60%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 Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

OH
SC
GA

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. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.5M on record.

Federal$28.5M
grants $28.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$28.4M
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k

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 Highlands College Foundation Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

66%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ghc Student Center LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Georgia Highlands College Foundation 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 Highlands College Foundation Inc?
Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,854 to it, the largest being University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates ($146,877). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $192,854 in grants to Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Georgia Highlands College Foundation Inc?
University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates is the largest funder on record, with $146,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Georgia Highlands College Foundation 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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing