Georgia · Nonprofit
THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC
THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,252 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($1,450,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Atlanta Girls' School Inc does
Mission
In a world becoming exponentially more complex, girls will face challenges in college and beyond that will require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and confidence to be solved. At atlanta girls' school (ags), we teach girls to be world-class problem solvers. Our curriculum and culture emerge from a distinct vision of what girls must learn individually and collectively to become thoughtful and capable leaders. Ags provides a challenging college-preparatory program in a learning environment designed to foster the full potential of each student and to enable her to become a vital contributor to our complex global society. We achieve this by using proven and emerging educational techniques tailored to how girls learn, integrating big-picture thinking, high expectations, and leading-edge technologies. Our girls learn to take appropriate risks, be courageous leaders, give back to their communities, and project personal confidence and competence in all they do.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Atlanta Girls' School's Board of Trustees made the very difficult decision to close the school at the end of the 2023-24 academic year in May 2024. AGS's dedicated Head of School and her AGS leadership team worked tirelessly to explore various options to continue the operations of the school. With the Board's support, the team implemented cost-cutting measures and intensified fundraising efforts in the face of severe economic challenges faced by small, independent schools. Those challenges coupled with a diminishing demand for single-gender education created an unsustainable financial path forward into the 2024-25 school year. As of May 31, 2024 the Atlanta Girls' School closed its doors, and the organization is fully dissolved and final as of June 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
AGS is committed to providing an outstanding girls' education to a student body that reflects the socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and religious diversity of Atlanta. To this end, AGS faculty deliver research-driven, girl-centered curricula to two students from China and students from over 60 zip codes across metro-Atlanta. Forty percent of our students are girls of color, and 30% of families receive financial aid. Sixty-one percent of AGS teachers hold advanced degrees, and the School offers extensive professional development opportunities to enable highly qualified staff to maintain and enrich their specialized, girl-centered teaching methods based on the latest research. With an average class size of 14 students, faculty deeply invest in helping each student succeed and attain her full potential. Leading programs: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum and interdisciplinary learning have been a hallmark of AGS teaching and learning for years, and STEAM skills in their purest forms-design thinking, problem solving, resiliency, creativity-have been shown through numerous studies to have enormous effect on the way girls learn best. In Middle School,…
$162,982 spent$2,884 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,982.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $1.4M (−88%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 7%. 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 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.
Board chair
Chris Marquardt
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $82k → $166k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $184k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 87% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 78% · 2023 30% — 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
43% of THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
98% of THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL 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. $131k 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.
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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
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC?
- THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,252 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($1,450,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,593,252 in grants to THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL 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 33 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