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Georgia Organics Inc

Decatur, GA · EIN 58-2345310. Reported 49 grants totalling $525,364 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

42organizations funded
$8,000median reported grant
$525,364granted, 2021-2024
17%of grantees funded again the next year
19%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 Organics Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 19% 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. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,065 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,135 and the largest $100,000. 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.
$5,000 - $10,000
36 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

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
Georgia Organic Peanut AssocAmericus, GA$100,000112021
Waygreen IncWaycross, GA$40,474222024
Gannon Organics LLCSavannah, GA$24,650222024
Rag & Frass FarmJeffersonville, GA$23,708332023
Snapfinger FarmStockbridge, GA$18,650112023
Rodgers Greens & Roots FarmDouglasville, GA$17,650222024
Ladybird FarmHull, GA$15,650222023
Dodge County School DistrictEastman, GA$15,300222024
Berry Family FarmsLudowici, GA$14,488112024
Semente FarmLithonia, GA$12,011112022
Starlit Roots LLCGrovetoen, GA$11,335112022
Vesterfield FarmCochran, GA$11,330112022
Dougherty County School SystAlbany, GA$10,000112023
William S Davies Homeless Shelter IncRome, GA$9,800112021
Bread & Butter FarmsMonroe, GA$9,698112021
Levity FarmsMarietta, GA$9,650112021
Polyculture Production LLCSnellville, GA$9,368112024
Outdoor Fresh FarmAtlanta, GA$9,000112023
Heritage FarmSapelo Island, GA$8,893112021
Phoenix Gardens LLCLawrenceville, GA$8,893112024
Polk School DistrictCedartown, GA$8,184112023
Atlanta Harvest & Local LandEllenwood, GA$8,000112023
Grateful PasturesMansfield, GA$8,000112023
Schmoe FarmQuitman, GA$8,000112024
Walton Wellness IncMonroe, GA$7,800112021
City of WintervilleWinterville, GA$7,400112021
Haralson County Board of EducTallapoosa, GA$7,036112023
Bamboo Creek FarmStone Mountain, GA$7,000112024
Bibb County Board of EducMacon, GA$7,000112023
City of Savannah BoeSavannah, GA$6,722112024
High Hog Farm LLCGrayson, GA$6,415112024
Hall County BoeGainesville, GA$6,161112024
Augusta Locally GrownAugusta, GA$6,065112021
Brett Family FarmKite, GA$6,000112024
Four Bellies FarmBowden, GA$6,000112023
Pinewood Springs FarmStockbridge, GA$6,000112023
Row By Rowe Organic FarmLuthersville, GA$6,000112023
Bartow County BoeCartersville, GA$5,990112024
Jones County Board of EduGrayson, GA$5,500112023
Chattahoochee QueenEast Point, GA$5,208112021
Treutlen County BoeSopertin, GA$5,200112024
Jodys FarmsRutledge, GA$5,135112023

6 of 42 (14%) 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.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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 4 of 42 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.

Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202112$191,998$9,271
20224$46,016$11,337
202318$144,839$7,518
202415$142,511$7,000

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

Americus, GA
$100K
Waycross, GA
$40K
Savannah, GA
$31K
Stockbridge, GA
$25K
Jeffersonville, GA
$24K
Douglasville, GA
$18K
Monroe, GA
$17K
Hull, GA
$16K

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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.

Food Well Alliance6 shared recipientsShare Our Strength4 shared recipientsFor Inspiration and Recognition of3 shared recipientsFeed the Children Inc2 shared recipientsAmerican Heart Association Inc2 shared recipientsDirect Relief2 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 $8,000 -- 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 Georgia Organics Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 5 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 10 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: 160 Clairemont Ave 200, Decatur, GA, 30030.

EIN 58-2345310 · 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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