Georgia's Own Credit Union
Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-0147128. Reported 42 grants totalling $1,042,936 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 32% 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.
- How much its list changes. 60% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $22,500; the smallest was $5,160 and the largest $101,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
5 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $48,401 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgias Own Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $330,461 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Georgia State University Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $301,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brian Jordan Back to the Future Foundation | Commerce, GA | $77,107 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kings Ridge Christian School Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gainesville Independent School Inc | Gainesville, GA | $33,720 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Augusta University Foundation Inc | Augusta, GA | $31,877 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | Pocatello, ID | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clayton State University Foundation Inc | Morrow, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Chris Tucker Foundation Inc | Stockbridge, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Livesafe Resources Inc | Marietta, GA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tech North Atlanta Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chattahoochee Tech Foundation Inc | Marietta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| L E a D Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mgba Incorporated | Mableton, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Triquest Christian Academy Inc | Mableton, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ware County Touchdown Club | Waycross, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Associated Credit Union Foundation | Norcross, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park Pride Inc | Atlanta, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trees Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $7,261 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Excel Youth Academy Inc | Atlanta, GA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Member First Mortgage | Grand Rapids, MI | $5,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lge Community Outreach Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $5,160 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 25 (40%) 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 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.
- Georgia's Own Foundation Inc
TO ASSIST THE FOUNDATION IN IMPLEMENTING GEORGIA'S OWN CREDIT UNION'S "PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE" PHILOSOPHY BY RAISING FUNDS AND SUPPORTING PROGRAMS THAT HELP PEOPLE GET AHEAD, GET INVOLVED, AND OWN THEIR FUTURE. - Augusta University Foundation
TO ASSIST THE FOUNDATION IN ITS SOLE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING THE MISSION OF AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY AND ITS LONG-TERM ACADEMIC PRIORITIES. - Junior Achievement of Georgia
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN ITS MISSION TO INSPIRE AND PREPARE YOUNG PEOPLE TO SUCCEED IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY. - Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN ITS MISSION TO DELIVER BEDS TO CHILDREN IN NEED BECAUSE ALL CHILDREN DESERVE A SAFE, COMFORTABLE PLACE TO LAY THEIR HEADS. - Shepherd Center Foundation Inc
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN ITS MISSION TO HELP PEOPLE WITH TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT DISABILITIES REBUILD THEIR LIVES. - Triquest Christian Academy
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN ITS MISSION TO OFFERING AFFORDABLE, EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION WITH SMALL CLASS SIZES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $262,638 | $11,575 |
| 2022 | 10 | $277,190 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 11 | $279,353 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $223,755 | $10,000 |
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
95% 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.
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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 $10,000 -- 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's Own Credit Union'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 13 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: 100 Peachtree St Nw 2800, Atlanta, GA, 30303.
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