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WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC

WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,100 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$3.4M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Waycross Area Shelter for Abused Persons Inc does

Mission

Shelter and counseling for abused women and their children

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide shelter and counseling for abused women and their children.

    $2,014,101 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,014,101.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($965k) Net assets 100 ($679k)2018 Revenue 131 ($1.4M) Expenses 138 ($1.3M) Net assets 111 ($753k)2019 Revenue 132 ($1.4M) Expenses 141 ($1.4M) Net assets 121 ($819k)2020 Revenue 135 ($1.5M) Expenses 148 ($1.4M) Net assets 125 ($851k)2021 Revenue 194 ($2.1M) Expenses 171 ($1.7M) Net assets 219 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 158 ($1.7M) Expenses 173 ($1.7M) Net assets 224 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 176 ($1.9M) Expenses 165 ($1.6M) Net assets 269 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 355 ($3.8M) Expenses 233 ($2.2M) Net assets 505 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (355)Expenses (233)Net assets (505)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+58%).

$800k
$928k
$931k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.8M
$3.5M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 84% · 2019 87% · 2020 84% · 2021 67% · 2022 82% · 2023 68% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
$74k
’18
$66k
’19
$32k
’20
$445k
’21
$37k
’22
$306k
’23
$1.6M
’24
4.2
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.

Chief executive

Michelle Girtman

Executive director

Board chair

Dorothy Griffin

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed520202020212222
Joined·+15+0+2+0+5+3+0
No longer listed·0020420
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $800 → $44k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC’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

WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

67% 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 WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC.

37%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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.

Where its funders are

59% of WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

CA
GA
TX

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

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’21
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.

Federal$625k
grants $625kcontracts $0
23
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$500k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$125k

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 WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC?
WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,100 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($35,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $97,100 in grants to WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYCROSS AREA SHELTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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