Georgia Works Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364763575
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042156680
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,027,599
- Expenses
- $2,662,432
- Assets
- $14,970,299
- Liabilities
- $2,323,804
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARLENE SCHULTZ (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DARLENE SCHULTZ (CEO): $212,540 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Georgia Works mission is to take chronically homeless men, comprehensively change their habits and help them with their problems so they can become working, productive, self-sufficient citizens. Through two very important methods -- intensive case management and emphasizing the importance of work -- people end their homelessness and achieve permanent self-sufficiency. The program is a 6 to 12 month multi-phased process offering comprehensive services to help trainees overcome barriers to employment and achieve independent lifestyles.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transitional Jobs: The hallmark of Georgia Works programmatic offering is full-time, transitional employment. After a trial period, men are assigned to a "Street Team." Dressed in Georgia Works uniforms, the men clean and care for the streets and sidewalks in and around downtown Atlanta. For their efforts on the "Street Team," the trainees are paid $15.00 per week during the first 30 days in the program. Georgia Works collaborates with numerous intown neighborhood associations to provide program trainees with "Street Team" job opportunities. After 30 days on the "Street Team," participants are eligible for a contract job opportunity with one of Georgia Works corporate partners currently, more than 20 Atlanta companies partner with the organization. Job opportunities range from maintenance work to skilled trades, depending upon the enrollee's skill set and interests. Participants continue to receive a stipend of $7.40 per hour, paid to them via Georgia Works. From this stipend, $50 per week is deducted for the individuals savings account and $100 per week is deducted for room and board.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 12.1%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.62; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $213K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.