Georgia · Nonprofit
SWEET AUBURN WORKS
SWEET AUBURN WORKS (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,304,316 to it, the largest being GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SWEET AUBURN WORKS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,533 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,533 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Main Street Alabamaportfolio match
- The Adler Family Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
48% of SWEET AUBURN WORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $113k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SWEET AUBURN WORKS’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
SWEET AUBURN WORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 39% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of SWEET AUBURN WORKS'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
SWEET AUBURN WORKS draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- Main Street Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Adler Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- In Our Backyards Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East 66th Street Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SWEET AUBURN WORKS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SWEET AUBURN WORKS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SWEET AUBURN WORKS?
- SWEET AUBURN WORKS (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,304,316 to it, the largest being GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SWEET AUBURN WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,304,316 in grants to SWEET AUBURN WORKS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWEET AUBURN WORKS?
- GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWEET AUBURN WORKS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing