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LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION

LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,387 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($5,887). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$255k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$547k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Lake Lanier Olympic Park Foundation does

Mission

To provide assistance to the city in the successful operation of lake lanier olympic park, primarily through fundraising efforts for capital improvements at the park.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation was previously responsible for renovations to the lake lanier olympic park and maintaining the physical upkeep of the venue property and facilities, including all buildings and grounds contained in the park until the gprb took over in july 2019. During the year ended june 30, 2020, the foundation installed street lights and completed one major project to improve the park - an olympic ring plaza - which prominently features an olympic rings sculpture in front of the timing tower. The sculpture was crafted from structural steel originally used in the support beams of floating grandstands erected for the 1996 olympics. The lake lanier olympic park continues to host local, national and international rowing, sprint kayak and canoe events, as well as dragon boat races and championships. The foundation supports these competitive events as well as community events held at the venue, typically by providing volunteers.

    $145,155 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $145,155.

02The 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 ($499k) Expenses 100 ($392k) Net assets 100 ($353k)2018 Revenue 79 ($393k) Expenses 78 ($307k) Net assets 124 ($439k)2020 Revenue 0 ($-1430) Expenses 21 ($82k) Net assets 132 ($465k)2021 Revenue 1 ($5k) Expenses 20 ($77k) Net assets 111 ($393k)2022 Revenue 186 ($929k) Expenses 30 ($119k) Net assets 341 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 9 ($47k) Expenses 173 ($678k) Net assets 162 ($572k)2024 Revenue 5 ($23k) Expenses 36 ($139k) Net assets 129 ($455k)2025 Revenue 51 ($255k) Expenses 42 ($163k) Net assets 155 ($547k)
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Revenue (51)Expenses (42)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $411k to $1.2M (+193%).

$405k
$656k
$471k
$411k
$1.2M
$577k
$461k
$553k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$107k
’17
$86k
’18
−$83k
’20
−$72k
’21
$810k
’22
−$631k
’23
−$116k
’24
$92k
’25
31
months of
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

Mimi Collins

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2·+0+3+0+1+3
No longer listed·3·03120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $3k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $660k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northeast Georgia Health System Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION’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

LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

52% 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 LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION.

52%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

52% of LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.

GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve31.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION?
LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,387 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($5,887). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,387 in grants to LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION?
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $5,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE LANIER OLYMPIC PARK FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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