Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC
GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,178,714 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($936,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Inc does
Mission
Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Edquest georgia includes research, a plan of work, and coordination of a coalition of 40 georgia based organizations led by the georgia partnership. Edquest georgia identifies seven core areas that local communities, states, and countries are using to achieve great success with their public education systems. Based in best-practice research, edquest georgia highlights these core policies proven to increase the education outcomes across the entire birth-to-work pipeline, while helping inform, engage, and mobilize stakeholders - particularly in business, education, philanthropic, and policy-making communities - to work together to support innovative and evidence-based education reform.
$308,774 spent26% of program spendingThe epfp program addresses the need for an education leadership development program in georgia to provide potential leaders with knowledge and networks to advance the core issues of education policy. It serves as a critical resource for individuals, organizations and the state to increase the knowledge about education policy and linkages between policy and practice. Ultimately, epfp seeks to improve the chances of children and youth to succeed. Seven day-long colloquiums, an opening retreat and a national education policy seminar are provided.
$141,391 spent$77,555 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe rural initiative encompasses work that enhances the capacity of local georgia civic and education leaders to advance their local birth-to-work pipelines. The initiative distributes mini-grants to local georgia chambers of commerce to improve local college-going and completion rates, highlights local stories of success through a podcast known as "field notes", increases the participation of rural community leaders in non-partisan statewide education policy initiatives, and provides a rural communication network. The communication network included 162 rural education, nonprofit, and business leaders in 2024.
$274,322 spent23% of program spendingActivities to fulfill mission of the organization includes community presentations and community strategic planning, media symposium for education reporters, and policy forums.
$465,002 spentof which $1,500 as grants$294,042 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,189,489.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.1M to $2.9M (−43%).
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 11% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION 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. 3 of the last 8 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
Lisa J Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $260k → $730k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $4.2M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Joseph B Whitehead Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 77% · 2019 64% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 85% — 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
29% of GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Georgia Chamber of Commerce · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC?
- GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,178,714 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($936,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,178,714 in grants to GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC?
- ECMC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $936,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION 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.
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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 18 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