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WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC

WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,936 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA ($127,152). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$817k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$209k
Net assets
$965k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter Inc does

Mission

Carroll county emergency shelter strives to serve survivors of domestic violence and their dependents throughout our service area of carroll, coweta, haralson, heard and meriwether counties. It is our mission to provide safe shelter, supportive services, legal advocacy and necessities to survivors of domestic violence at no cost and free of any discrimination or biases to empower each person to live a safe, self-sufficient lifestyle, free from the detrimental effects of domestic violence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing direct short-term shelter, consulting, assistance, and support services to homeless and victims of abuse.

    $1,214,563 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,214,563.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 71 ($814k) Expenses 77 ($825k) Net assets 99 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 109 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($1.3M) Net assets 98 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 123 ($1.3M) Net assets 92 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 71 ($817k) Expenses 117 ($1.3M) Net assets 65 ($965k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (71)Expenses (117)Net assets (65)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $969k (−29%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$969k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 70% · 2021 88% · 2022 63% · 2023 60% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’20
−$11k
’21
−$19k
’22
−$88k
’23
−$434k
’24
1.0
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

20202021202220232024
Listed1718191515
Joined·+1+6+5+6
No longer listed·0596
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $15k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER 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

WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC.

61%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 83% · 2019 72% · 2020 77% · 2021 78% · 2022 99% · 2023 61% — 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

50% of WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

61% of WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $82k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Georgia funders.

CO
GA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC's revenue fell 29% between 2020 and 2024.

Operating margin−53% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC?
WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,936 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA ($127,152). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $208,936 in grants to WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA is the largest funder on record, with $127,152 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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