Georgia · Nonprofit
SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC
SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,805 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($208,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $726k
- Net assets
- $822k
What South Fulton Institute Inc does
Mission
South Fulton Arts is a regional catalyst for the advancement of the arts, education, and environment that enriches lives and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The South Fulton Institute mission is to be a regional catalyst for the advancement of Art, Education, and the Environment enriching lives and communities. We envision a world where the Arts intersect with the education and the environment reaching from South Fulton to Atlanta and beyond. We seek to create an artistic environment that models humanity, is socially just, is reflective of, and celebrates the regional diversity of the Southeastern United States and our increasingly global community. By actively refuting any notions of inequity and inequality, we seek to decenter whiteness, patriarchy, ableism, binary gender constructs, and other tools of systemic oppression. We acknowledge and honor the identities and lived experiences of our community.Therefore, we invest the appropriate time, money, care, and respect necessary to reflect and respect the value of the stories we choose to tell, as well as the people involved in telling them.We commit to remaining mindful about how our art fits in the current and ever-changing socio-political landscape and we will reevaluate our work at the end of every season to ensure that our art is authentically serving our community.As such, we…
$389,756 spent$6,261 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $389,756.
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.
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 $1.5M to $2.0M (+38%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 45% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Deborah Griffin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $47k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC’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
SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
81% 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 SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 32% · 2019 73% · 2020 48% · 2021 45% · 2022 38% · 2023 61% — 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
21% of SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
64% of SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE 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 $259k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
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 SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE 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 SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC?
- SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,805 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($208,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $725,805 in grants to SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $208,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH FULTON INSTITUTE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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