Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND
GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,937,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,007,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund Dba the Gro Fund does
Mission
Gro builds bold, evidence-based, and community-informed solutions to address the root causes of poverty and work toward closing the racial wealth gap.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In her hands1. Policy learning: the organization will share the findings and results of the in her hands project with various agencies to educate them on income stability and wealth-building programs focused on economically marginalized/low-income groups. The goal of these programs will be education. The organization may write white papers or do limited advocacy for state-earned income tax credit and social safety net reform. The organization conducts limited lobbying activities and speaks with various political figures from time to time. The organization's main focus will be to educate georgia-based organizations and other entities who are interested in learning more about the in her hands project and its results, as well as the theory and policy behind a guaranteed income project. This work will be done by organization staff and volunteers. 2. Direct service provision for low-income women: in her hands is a collaborative initiative of both the organization and give directly, and it provides 275 low-income women in atlantas westside a with an income supplement by providing an average of $1000 per month for three years. In her hands will not just provide a guaranteed income for…
$12,043,089 spentof which $11,510,712 as grants94% of program spendingFreedom futures: cash for today, capital for tomorrow1. Policy learning: the organization will share the findings and results of freedom futures: cash for today, capital for tomorrow, an accelerated baby bonds pilot program, with various agencies to educate them on income stability and wealth-building programs focused on economically marginalized youth and young adults. The goal of these programs will be generating evidence on early wealth building and education. The organization may write white papers or do limited advocacy for strategies to address wealth disparities such as a state baby bonds program. The organization conducts limited lobbying activities and speaks with various political figures from time to time. The organization's main focus will be to educate georgia-based organizations and other entities who are interested in learning more about the baby bonds pilot program and its results, as well as the theory and policy behind direct youth wealth building strategies. This work will be done by organization staff and volunteers. 2. Direct service provision for low-income youth and young adults: the freedom futures: cash for today, capital for tomorrow program will provide…
$471,125 spentof which $190,000 as grants4% of program spendingCommunicationsthe communications program supports gros work by elevating program learnings from evaluation and participant stories. The communications program uses data and evidence to better understand harmful narratives about poverty and the racial wealth gap and how to create new narratives that emphasize how the economy can work for all of us.
$332,790 spentof which $3,300 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,847,004.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $16M (+549%).
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.
99% of GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Amir Farokhi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $80k → $3.9M.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 59%; 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 RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 75% · 2022 52% · 2023 28% — 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.
Where its funders are
GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND?
- GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,937,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,007,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $15,937,275 in grants to GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,007,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 31 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