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State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Inc

Atlanta, GA · EIN 47-4742575. Reported 45 grants totalling $2,915,128 to 33 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$18,000median reported grant
$2,915,128granted, 2020-2023
90%of grantees funded again the next year
14%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 State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 14% 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. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 $18,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $66,804; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $280,200. 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.
Under $5,000
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
9 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 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
Miles Ahead Charter SchoolPowder Springs, GA$400,000222023
Sankofa MontessoriForest Park, GA$381,212222023
Anchor Schools IncDecatur, GA$341,221222023
Dekalb Brilliance Academy IncDecatur, GA$280,200112023
Zest Preparatory Academy IncDouglasville, GA$270,000222023
Utopian Academy for the Arts the Miller Foundation IncRiverdale, GA$255,995222023
Amana Academy IncAlpharetta, GA$234,220222023
Peace Academy CharterDecatur, GA$234,220112023
7 Pillars Career AcademyMorrow, GA$100,000222023
Delta Steam AcademyLithia Spgs, GA$50,000112023
Liberty Classical Schools Educational Services IncCanton, GA$50,000222023
The Museum SchoolDecatur, GA$50,000222023
Tybee Island Charter SchoolTybee Island, GA$49,960222023
Dubois Integrity Academy IncRiverdale, GA$47,000222023
Ivy Preparatory Academy IncorporatedAtlanta, GA$43,600222022
International Charter School of Atlanta IncRoswell, GA$18,000112020
Georgia Charter Educational Foundation IncSenoia, GA$17,000112020
Atlanta Heights Charter School IncAtlanta, GA$16,000112020
Genesis Innovation Academy IncAtlanta, GA$15,400112020
Mountain Education Center IncCleveland, GA$8,600112020
Learning Center Foundation of Central Cobb IncSmyrna, GA$8,000112020
Fulton Leadership Academy IncEast Point, GA$7,000112020
Resurgence HallEast Point, GA$7,000112020
Ethos Classical IncAtlanta, GA$5,500112020
Coastal Plains Education Center IncBrunswick, GA$5,000112020
Cirrus Education GroupMacon, GA$4,000112020
International Charter Academy of Georgia IncNorcross, GA$4,000112020
Slam Academy of Atlanta IncMiami, FL$4,000112020
Sail-School for Arts-Infused LearningEvans, GA$2,000112020
Scintilla Charter Academy IncValdosta, GA$2,000112020
Atlanta Dream AcademyCollege Park, GA$1,500112020
Harriet Tubman SchoolAtlanta, GA$1,500112020
Liberty Tech Charter School IncBrooks, GA$1,000112020

12 of 33 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 33 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.

Education
27 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Religion
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202021$166,000$7,000
202210$926,973$40,598
202314$1,822,155$98,674

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

100% 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
$2.9M
Florida
$4K

Down to the city

Decatur, GA
$906K
Powder Springs, GA
$400K
Forest Park, GA
$381K
Riverdale, GA
$303K
Douglasville, GA
$270K
Alpharetta, GA
$234K

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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.

Charter Fund Inc11 shared recipientsEvery Student Every Community Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsLouis Calder Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Reinvestment Fund Inc4 shared recipientsNew Schools Fund4 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 $18,000 -- 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia 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: 1441 Woodmont Ln Nw Ste 1788, Atlanta, GA, 30318.

EIN 47-4742575 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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