Georgia Recycling Coalition Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581983957
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4046343095
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,059
Expenses
$168,491
Assets
$52,535

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mason Towe (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Emily Groth Ryan (Director)
  • Jeff Lipscomb (Director)
  • Page Beckwith (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote and enhance recycling and waste reduction in Georgia

What it reported doing in 2025

GRC Accomplishments 2025 Sponsored a Safety Webinar with national experts including NWRA presenting in April 2025; developing a Safety Toolkit of resources for member use in local safety planning. Conducted a facility tour in March 2025 at Waste Eliminator recycling facility Participated in April 2025as a speaker in GA College & State University Sustainability Forum and as an Exhibitor at the Cobb County Sustainability Forum & Expo Facilitated International Compost Awareness Week activities in May 2025. Partnered with SWANA GA Chapter in observing Waste & Recycling Workers Week in June 2025. featuring industry workers in multiple social media posts throughout the week. Continue twice weekly distribution of #RecycleRightGA campaign for social media to recycling program managers and educators around the state. Continued work with the Georgia Composting Council-assisting the board and committees on multiple programs/projects and events in 2025-2026. Celebrated America Recycles Day (Nov 15) with social media outreach for our local recycling program managers to share in their communities. (80 subscribers) Sponsored a school Art Contest for ages 5-19, launched on America Recycles Day in November 2024 and culminating with awards on Earth Day 2025. Second year project. Awarded our Annual Scholarship to a GA Tech graduate studying Civil Engineering and Sustainable Cities; awarded our annual Recycling Awards to an Outstanding Local Government (Habersham County) and to a University as Outstanding Institutional Program (UGA). Completed our 34th Annual Conference in October 2025-Shaping the Future. Revealed a new campaign in development to boost recycling participation, dispel long held myths and promote recovered materials manufacturers in our state.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.