Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC
GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,073,986 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($375,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Inc does
Mission
The georgia trust works for the preservation and revitalization of georgia's diverse historic resources and advocates for their appreciation, protection, and use.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The trust operates a revolving fund used to purchase, stabilize, and/or rehabilitate, and then resell historic properties to preservation-minded buyers. In july 2024, the trust purchased the first national bank building in louisville, goergia. Efforts are underway to stabilize the structure by replacing the roof and investing in potential uses for the historic structure. To further the mission of protection, the organization places and administers eighty-two preservation easements on sites throughout the state of georgia which are vital for preserving historic properties and ensuring their future protection. The newest addition to the program is park street united methodist church in atlanta's west end. This gothic revival style building, now owned by clark atlanta university, houses its art and music departments. Annually, the trust publishes and promotes a list of historic sites threatened by demolition, neglect, lack of maintenance, or inappropriate development called places in peril. The intention is to encourage owners to preserve these places. In 2024, the places in peril porgram achieved significant milestones. The lee street bridge project in americus was redesigned with…
$863,122 spentof which $116,850 as grants$332,580 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe georgia trust owns the hay house in macon, georgia and actively preserves and manages this museum house for public benefit. This site encourages an understanding of historic preservation and history by allowing visitors to tour the property and engage in site-based education. During the year, over 24,325 individuals toured the hay house property. Maintenance work undertaken during the fiscal year includes painting the clerestroy ceiling, music room, and entrance hall. New audio-visual materials for tours were introduced, along with exhibits showcasing the house's history, notably featuring chester davis, the family chauffeur, butler, and first docent. Additionally, hay house welcomed eight graders from bibb county schools in georgia and launched the 'inspired surroundings' art exhibit initiative. Rhodes hall, one of atlanta's few remaining peachtree street mansions, is the headquarters of the georgia trust and continues to servce as a historic landmark, workplace, museum, and educational center. During this fiscal year, the georgia trust focused significant resources into maintaining the building, now a decade past its last major rehabilitation. The tower roof was replaced and…
$937,276 spentof which $750 as grants$722,493 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe organization encourages an understanding of historic preservation through its historic preservation institute and also through conferences, seminars, communications, and internships. During the fiscal year, 706 individuals attended twenty-three different class sessions, four workshops, and eleven tours offered on historic preservation. Topics included a grant application workshop, preserving black churches, and equitable preservation. The rambler, a quarterly magazine, stimulates interest, educates, and facilitates participation in historic preservation. The cover stories included in this fiscal year were historic places of play, architecture of the last colony, building on the past, and georgia's historic landscapes. In addition, the georgia trust published a book entitled architecture of the last colony which is sold by the georgia trust and the university of georgia press. This book joins the georgia trust's collection of publications which include the story of j. Neel reed, architect, written by william r. Mitchell, jr., a founding trustee of the georgia trust. Annually, georgia trust hosts group tours of historic sites in various regions of the state called rambles and…
$550,281 spentof which $250 as grants$398,226 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,350,679.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $17M (+18%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Tiffany Alewine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $60k → $381k.
11 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
31% 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 23% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 30% — 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
56% of GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
72% of GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.4M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$49k
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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC?
- GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,073,986 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($375,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $2,073,986 in grants to GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC?
- 1772 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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 60 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