Georgia Advancing Communities Together Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582661528
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4045860740
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $358,810
- Expenses
- $486,170
- Assets
- $365,026
- Liabilities
- $1,842
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BAMBIE HAYES BROWN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BAMBIE HAYES BROWN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $103,782 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build a network of strong nonprofit organizations engaged in housing and community development throughout Georgia
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 Georgia Advancing Communities Together (Georgia ACT) strengthened housing, advocacy, leadership development, and civic participation across Georgia through convenings, training, and coordinated action. Key accomplishments included engaging member and partners from urban, suburban and rural communities statewide through trainings, policy briefings and convenings, advancing housing priorities at the local, state and national levels, including hosting the Up for Growth Pro-Housing Summit, graduating 11 Next Generation Young Leaders Fellows advancing housing justice in their communities; convening more than 200 participants at the 2025 Georgia Housing Day at the Capitol; reaching thousands of residents statewide through nonpartisan voter education and voter ID support; and hosting the 2025 Fall Affordable Housing Conference and Awards Program with 147 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $227K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.