Georgia · Nonprofit
PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC
PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,411,340 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($236,197). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta Inc does
Mission
Pro bono partnership of atlanta is organized and operated exclusively to promote, encourage, assist, and provide volunteer legal services for nonprofit agencies serving poor and disadvantaged communities in the greater atlanta region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule o for complete program service accomplishment description.each year, pbpa provides free legal services to over 300 nonprofits, addressing on average 3-4 legal matters for each client during the year. Legal matters include corporate governance, real estate, contracts, intellectual property, employment, tax, and technology. Since 2005, pbpa has assisted over 1,173 nonprofit organizations with over 14,000 different legal matters, leveraging the experience of 4,000 volunteer attorneys. When surveyed in 2023, 53% of pbpa client respondents stated that they did not have access to legal services prior to pbpa, 96% agreed that pbpa helped their organization fulfill its mission, and the overall client satisfaction score for pbpa was 98%.
$510,722 spent63% of program spendingSee schedule o for complete program service accomplishment description.nonprofit legal clinics: pbpa organizes half-day legal clinics about seven times a year, bringing together volunteer attorneys and nonprofits to identify and resolve legal issues quickly. Pbpa's longest-running clinic is the nonprofit legal check up (lcu), a half-day continuing legal education program that trains attorneys and pairs them with a nonprofit. Lcu volunteers identify legal issues for participating nonprofits across the business law spectrum. Pbpa then recruits and assists volunteer attorneys to address issues. Since its inception, over 700 nonprofits have gone through lcu. In a survey given to nonprofits about lcu, 100% of nonprofits said that the program was useful or extremely useful to their organization.
$202,667 spent25% of program spendingSee schedule o for complete program service accomplishment description.legal education: pbpa maintains a website with over 170 articles, 140 recorded webcasts, and 39 podcasts on nonprofit legal topics. Pbpa's webcasts, which are presented live and offered for viewing afterward on demand, have been attended by 2,000+ live viewers and viewed on demand 5,000+ times. Podcast episodes have been downloaded over 2,000 times. When surveyed, 97% of respondents who listened to the podcasts were either very satisfied or satisfied with the content. Pbpa sends a nonprofit notes newsletter with timely legal alerts once a month to a distribution list of approximately 3000 nonprofit professionals and collaborates with other community organizations on in-person education programs. Pbpa also provides legal training specifically for emerging nonprofits executive directors through the nonprofit legal bootcamp for emerging leaders.
$97,280 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $810,669.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+20%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Rachel Epps Spears
Executive director
Board chair
Mindy Doster
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $97k → $243k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
47% 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 PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 51% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
63% of PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA 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. $631k 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
PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA 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 PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC?
- PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,411,340 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($236,197). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,411,340 in grants to PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $236,197 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing