Georgia · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,409,329 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($21,671,226). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.1B
Recipients
3,489
Contributions on record
$581M
Donors on record
181
Payments out are 1.89x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Cfleadsportfolio match
- Scholarship America 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.
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 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $43M.
24 of 165 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $390M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 165 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.
Where its funders are
81% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER 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. $48M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis 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 165 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalGA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 90 organizations near you
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation Inshared fundersGA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009shared fundersIL · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · funds 159 organizations near you
- Atl Fdn-W Peters Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 123 organizations that share your funders · funds 250 organizations near you
- Tr Uw Charles I Brananshared funderslocalMO · backs 111 organizations that share your funders · funds 231 organizations near you
- Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 96 organizations that share your funders · funds 168 organizations near you
- Tull Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 139 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Goatl Evolution Funds Manager LLC · disregarded
- Goatl Economic Impact Pool LLC · disregarded
- Goatl Community Capacity Fund LLC · disregarded
- Tcf Charitable Solutions · disregarded
- Metropolitan Foundation of Atlanta Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER 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.
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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,409,329 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($21,671,226). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 165 organizations giving $189,409,329 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $21,671,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 165funders 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