Georgia · Nonprofit
Promise686 Inc
Promise686 Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,943,952 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,193,731). 37 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 FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Promise686 Inc does
Mission
Promise686 mobilizes families and church communities to prevent children from coming into the foster care system, to intervene when children enter the system, and to connect children and families when children are in need of a permanent home. Promise686s core services include adoption grant assistance, church ministry implementation, volunteer support and adoptive and foster care education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promise686 served 2100 churches in 2025 through Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) leadership training, ongoing volunteer support, digital resources, and coalition building activities. Just over 19,000 volunteers actively served children and families through committed roles in Care Communities. Additionally, Promise686 served 37 affiliated non-profits in utilizing Promise686 resources and guidance to assist at-risk children in their specific locales, influencing lives in 42 states.
$2,780,529 spentof which $149,478 as grants$122,318 earned by the program84% of program spendingPromise686 provided $188,854 in grants to help 20 families with adoption expenses, $93,194 to support families, and $242,368 to partner organizations to serve families in their local areas. Promise686 also provided $21,959 in legal grants to finalize adoptions for 11 families.
$530,332 spentof which $396,897 as grants16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,310,861.
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 2018 to 2019, from $543k to $1.3M (+146%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Promise686 Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Cook
President and CEO
Board chair
Keith Style
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $94k → $1.8M.
19 of 65 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.
From the IRS filings of Promise686 Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
Promise686 Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 Promise686 Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 51% · 2019 55% · 2020 42% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — 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
45% of Promise686 Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
52% of Promise686 Inc'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 $3.8M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Promise686 Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Promise686 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Promise686 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 Promise686 Inc?
- Promise686 Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,943,952 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,193,731). 37 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 Promise686 Inc have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $7,943,952 in grants to Promise686 Inc, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Promise686 Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,193,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Promise686 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 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