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Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc

Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,665,808 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,255,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$3.8M
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc does

Mission

Provide the highest quality of educational & therapeutical programming available to children with/without disabilities by nurturing & chall- enging each student on his/her own level of development & curriculum.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational & Therapeutical Services for Special Needs Children and Adults.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($600k) Expenses 100 ($553k) Net assets 100 ($598k)2018 Revenue 119 ($712k) Expenses 128 ($711k) Net assets 100 ($599k)2019 Revenue 200 ($1.2M) Expenses 140 ($775k) Net assets 149 ($889k)2020 Revenue 234 ($1.4M) Expenses 171 ($949k) Net assets 202 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 249 ($1.5M) Expenses 271 ($1.5M) Net assets 201 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 283 ($1.7M) Expenses 273 ($1.5M) Net assets 233 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 356 ($2.1M) Expenses 325 ($1.8M) Net assets 289 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 582 ($3.5M) Expenses 390 ($2.2M) Net assets 512 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 532 ($3.2M) Expenses 435 ($2.4M) Net assets 644 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (532)Expenses (435)Net assets (644)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $3.9M (+183%).

$874k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$4.2M
$5.4M
$6.0M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$1k
’18
$424k
’19
$458k
’20
−$3k
’21
$188k
’22
$339k
’23
$1.3M
’24
$787k
’25
11
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

Michael Maloney

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+3+1+3+2+0+1+2+2
No longer listed·20320001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $30k → $296k.

6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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

Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc.

47%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 65% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 52% — 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

50% of Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

50% of Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Georgia funders.

IL
MO
NC
AL
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 15%Fundraising 9%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc?
Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,665,808 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,255,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,665,808 in grants to Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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