Georgia · Nonprofit
PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC
PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,913,153 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($3,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Purpose Built Schools Atlanta Inc does
Mission
To operate one or more "turnaround" schools in the atlanta public school system, thereby promoting education, lessening the burdens of government and otherwise advancing substantial exempt purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To support our students and families working towards our mission to cultivate our students' skills and agency in pursuit of their unlimited potential.
$33,649,880 spent$112,146 earned by the program99% of program spendingTo address the critical need for wraparound services, pbsa facilitated the establishment of pbsa community engagement, inc. ("cei"). Cei was formed with the specific mission of delivering essential services that complement and strengthen the core instructional programs in schools operated by pbsa.
$335,050 spentof which $335,050 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,984,930.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.1M to $18M (+324%).
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: 2017 68% · 2018 73% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 87% · 2022 94% · 2023 87% · 2024 95% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Michael A Davis
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Gregory Giornelli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $906k → $2.6M.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 76% · 2020 71% · 2021 46% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% — 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
31% of PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS 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. $446k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pbsa Community Engagement Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS 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 PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC?
- PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,913,153 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($3,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $12,913,153 in grants to PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC?
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS 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.
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 24 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