GOAL Scholarship Program
Legal name: Georgia Goal Scholarship Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651280229
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Peachtree Corners, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7708284031
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,091,163
- Expenses
- $68,687,255
- Assets
- $102,105,315
- Liabilities
- $1,464,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN SAYLOR (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BENJAMIN SAYLOR (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $430,806 total reported compensation
- LISA KELLY (SENIOR ADVISOR): $329,426 total reported compensation
- ALLISON SAXBY (VP OF OPERATIONS): $297,866 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Georgia GOAL Scholarship Program helps taxpayers improve K-12 education opportunities through Georgia's Education Expense Credit. The mission of Georgia GOAL Scholarship Program is to provide greater opportunities for access to learning for all Georgia children. Our goals and objectives are: 1. To provide excellent customer service to our participating schools, taxpayer donors, and scholarship recipients. Yes. The designation of a particular school (or multiple schools) is permissible, and, as long as the school(s) meets the legal requirement that all funds raised in one calendar year must be fully allocated to specific student recipients by the end of the following calendar year, the taxpayer's contribution will be obligated to provide scholarships to eligible students to attend the designated school(s). At least once a year, a school's financial aid office will recommend qualified...
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarship program - allows students from low and middle income families opportunities to attend private k-12 schools of their parents' choice in the state of Georgia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $199.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $431K · 18 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.