Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK
GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,216,882 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($830,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Georgia Micro Enterprise Network does
Mission
The Georgia Micro Enterprise Network (gmen) is a nonprofit association that is a catalyst for economic development in georgia. Through its network of business development training and lending organizations(mdos), gmen serves as a resource to support and fund viable microbusinesses in an effort to create new jobs and business opportunities. Our motto is, bringing urban and rural businesses development together and our mission is to create opportunities and support for microbusiness development as an avenue for economic selfsufficiency in georgia. This is achieved by providing support for viable businesses, driving economic growth by creating selfsufficient individuals, contributing to sustainable economic development, creating new jobs, and implementing industry standards and accreditation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency rental assistance program (erap) - a program designed to provide financialassistance for rent, utilities, and security deposits. This program seeks to bridge the gap forthose who have lost income due to covid-19.gmen has assisted with the following programs:cobb county emergency rental assistance program june 2023 december 2025 $2.7 millionhenry county emergency rental assistance program (erap 1) april 1, 2021 october 31, 2021$7mhenry county emergency rental assistance program (erap 2) november 1, 2021 february 28, 2022 $4.7mchatham county emergency rental assistance program may 1, 2022 february 28, 2023 $3.1mcity of stonecrest american rescue plan act may 1, 2023 july 2023 $1.5minvest atlanta technical assistance program november 1, 2020 december 31, 2024 $550,000
$19,806,456 spentof which $19,806,456 as grants92% of program spendingMicroenterprise assistance programs
$1,816,137 spentof which $1,049,950 as grants8% of program spendingSmall business enterprise training and technical assistancegmen technical assistance programs include: tap2gmenaccounting accelerator grits & greensdirect services to small businesses: gmen womengmen menthe rites project returning citizenssame women across the southeastdivine 9 members of fraternal organizationsaccess to capital:the flex fund - $250,000digital readiness services: mdo university empower by godaddyibm thinkificaeo resli
$28,000 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,622,593.
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 2020 to 2021, from $818k to $4.1M (+401%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 81% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Robert B Cooke
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $147k → $165k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK’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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 62% · 2020 63% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 91% — broadly stable.
“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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.5M
- Department of Agriculture$99k
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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK: 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 MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK?
- GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,216,882 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($830,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,216,882 in grants to GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $830,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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