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Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc

Atlanta, GA · EIN 47-4777204. Reported 84 grants totalling $27.2M to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

46organizations funded
$172,500median reported grant
$27.2Mgranted, 2020-2023
56%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P50) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $172,500. Half of what it reported fell between $65,000 and $400,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $2,300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
26 grants
$250,000 Or More
31 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
America VotesWashington, DC$2,766,459332022
Progress Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$2,692,898332023
New Georgia Project Action FundAtlanta, GA$2,515,000442023
Black PacWashington, DC$2,300,000112022
Black Male Voter ProjectAtlanta, GA$1,855,000442023
Black Male Initiative Geaorgia IncFairburn, GA$1,780,000222023
We Vote We Win IncAtlanta, GA$1,700,000332023
Glahr Action NetworkAtlanta, GA$1,045,000222023
Working Families Organization IncBrooklyn, NY$970,000442023
Black Progressive Action CoalitionWashington, DC$800,000112022
Black Voters Matter FundAtlanta, GA$750,000332022
Represent Georgia Action Network IMacon, GA$653,157442023
Care in Action IncNew York, NY$615,000332022
Black Male Initiative FundAtlanta, GA$600,000112021
CASA in ActionHyattsville, MD$545,000222023
Glahr Action NetworkAtlanta, GA$490,000222021
Beyond ImpactW Hollywood, CA$480,000222023
Aaaf PacNorcross, GA$450,000112022
Georgia EqualityAtlanta, GA$410,000332023
Georgia Safe and Strong IncMcdonough, GA$375,017222023
Asian American Advocacy Fund IncNorcross, GA$355,000332023
Galeo Impact Fund IncAtlanta, GA$305,000542023
CASA in ActionHyattsville, MD$300,000112021
Forward Action FundConcord, NH$295,000222023
1K Women Strong IncTallahassee, FL$255,000222023
Unite Here Action FundNew York, NY$250,000112022
Aaaf IcNorcross, GA$200,000112022
Collective Renaissance GuildAtlanta, GA$200,000112023
Georgia Youth Justice Coalition forAtlanta, GA$185,000112023
Majority Institute$148,325112020
Galeo Impact Fund IcAtlanta, GA$125,000112022
Environment America IncDenver, CO$100,000112021
Faith in Public Life Action FundWashington, DC$100,000112021
Mi Familia VotaPhoenix, AZ$100,000112022
Mi Familia VotaPhoenix, AZ$100,000112021
Poder Latinx Tides AdvocacyWashington, DC$75,000112021
Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates IncAtlanta, GA$50,000112021
Song Power$50,000112020
Apala$45,000112020
Asian Pacific American Labor Allian$35,000112020
9TO5 Action Fund IncAtlanta, GA$25,000112023
Federation of State Conservation Voters Leagues IncAtlanta, GA$25,000112020
Gs Action Inc$25,000112020
March on$25,000112020
Showing Up for Racial Justice IncLouisville, KY$25,000112023
Project 68 IncMiami, FL$15,000112022

20 of 46 (43%) 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 15 of 46 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.

Civil Rights
10 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Environment
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202018$3,698,941$49,578
202119$5,831,142$200,000
202226$14.8M$325,000
202321$2,865,756$80,000

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

62% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Georgia
$16.8M
District of Columbia
$6.0M
New York
$1.8M
Maryland
$845K
California
$480K
New Hampshire
$295K
Florida
$270K
Arizona
$200K

Down to the city

Atlanta, GA
$13.0M
Washington, DC
$6.0M
Fairburn, GA
$1.8M
Norcross, GA
$1.0M
Brooklyn, NY
$970K
New York, NY
$865K

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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.

Sixteen Thirty Fund21 shared recipientsAll Hands on Deck Network Inc20 shared recipientsTides Foundation19 shared recipientsAmerica Votes19 shared recipientsTides Advocacy16 shared recipientsWay to Win Action Fund Inc15 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $172,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Georgia Investor Action Fund 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.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 170515, Atlanta, GA, 30317.

EIN 47-4777204 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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