Georgia Bar Foundation Inc
Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-0552594. Reported 87 grants totalling $20.1M to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Georgia Bar Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I032) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 43% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $120,000; the smallest was $8,910 and the largest $4,200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Legal Services Program Inc | Atlanta, GA | $8,659,988 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $4,155,422 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Civil Justice Foundation Inc | Milton, GA | $2,644,798 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Heirs Property Law Center Inc | Atlanta, GA | $771,994 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $710,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Truancy Intervention Project Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $694,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Appellate Prac & Educ Resource | Atlanta, GA | $467,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Appleseed Inc | Marietta, GA | $455,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc | Atlanta, GA | $290,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Middle Georgia Access to Justice Council Inc | Macon, GA | $189,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| State Bar of Georgia-Basics Committee | Atlanta, GA | $140,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southwest Georgia Legal Self-Help Center Inc | Albany, GA | $137,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ash Tree Organization | Savannah, GA | $102,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Inc | Smyrna, GA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Share the Magic Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc | Atlanta, GA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Georgia Innocence Project Inc | Atlanta, GA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Safepath Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Marietta, GA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Safe Shelter Center for Domestic Violence Services Inc | Savannah, GA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jefferson County Community Ships for Youth | Louisville, GA | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Peachtree Ridge Robotics Booster Club | Suwanee, GA | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia Center for Civic Engagement | Cartersville, GA | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dekalb Pro Bono Inc | Decatur, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Georgia Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Inc | Lawrenceville, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Law and Public Safety Education Network | Milton, GA | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State Bar of Georgia - Basics Committee | Atlanta, GA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia Justice Project Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Halcyon Home for Battered Women Inc | Thomasville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Lily Pad Sane Center Inc | Albany, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| State YMCA of Georgia Inc | Cartersville, GA | $8,910 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
21 of 31 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $3,580,211 | $30,000 |
| 2021 | 20 | $2,792,055 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $4,548,208 | $45,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $9,219,938 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Georgia Bar Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 104 Marietta St Suite 610, Atlanta, GA, 30303.
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