Georgia · Nonprofit
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,799,915 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($6,550,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc does
Mission
Charitable, research, and educational activities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Services Community Services provides informative, innovative and impactful year-round programming designed to change the way individuals, organizations, governments, and corporations approach and address societal issues, implicit and unconscious biases, conflict, tension, violence, diversity and inclusion by providing a holistic means for responding in a nonviolent manner. We educate and train individuals and leaders across all sectors in our global community including corporate, government, sports, media, law enforcement, entertainment, healthcare, education, civic, social and faith-based organizations, on Dr. Kings critical thinking and practical methods of nonviolent social change as a means and strategy to accelerate progress in social justice initiatives as well as personal and leadership development. The foundation our programming is based on Dr. Kings Six Principles and Six Steps of Nonviolence, which we call Nonviolence365(NV365), as a means to building The Beloved Community.
$5,555,277 spent79% of program spendingArchival Services The King Centers archival services promote research, study, and dissemination of information documenting the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American civil rights movement. Through reference activities, lectures, presentations, brochures, displays, and exhibits, the King Library and Archives provides unique historical and factual information. In an effort to make these invaluable resources more accesible to a wider audience, The King Center has embarked on extensive projects, preserving and making available a wealth of archival material through cutting-edge technology to effectively manage and organize these digitized assets, the Center has implented a state-of-the-art digital asset management system, ensuring the long-term preservation and easy retrieval of these essential resources. Futhermore, The King Center has embraced the power of online engagement, offering a range of captivating historical interactives and educational resources designed to enhance public engagement with archival resources. These digital initiatives allow visitors from around the globe to explore the rich history of the civil rights movement and Dr. Kings…
$1,010,633 spent14% of program spendingResource Center The Resource Center provides daily self-guided tours of exhibits, artifacts and other memorabilia related to Dr. & Mrs. King, Mahatma Gandhi and the civil rights movement. Additionally, the Resource Center houses the theatre where numerous programs are held throughout the year for the purpose of educating and training in Dr. Kings philosophy/methodology; promoting civil & human rights issues; hosting Beloved Community Talks, as well as Students with King. The Bookstore is the retail component of the Resource Center offering products in the form of books, CDs, DVDs, gift items and educational material about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King, civil & human rights and nonviolent social change.
$500,318 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,066,228.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.8M to $13M (+31%).
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: 2017 51% · 2018 48% · 2019 31% · 2020 36% · 2021 17% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% · 2024 20% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Dr Bernice A King
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Dr Angela Farris Watkins
Interim Chair & Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $32k → $3.1M.
15 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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 Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 57% · 2019 97% · 2020 21% · 2021 33% · 2022 62% · 2023 80% — 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
28% of The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$9.0M
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 The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Intellectual Properties Management · corp_trust
- King Estate · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc?
- The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,799,915 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($6,550,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $16,799,915 in grants to The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change 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 78 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