Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia

About Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia

Children’s Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc concentrates its grantmaking on sustaining Georgia’s child advocacy center network through operating support. The largest recent award in the data, $117,585 to Wellspring Living in Atlanta, is followed by additional support to the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, reinforcing a pattern of funding frontline organizations that provide child sexual assault and trauma services. The foundation’s giving also reaches county and circuit-level centers such as CAC Thomson - Child Enrichment Inc in Augusta and Care Cottage Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Forsyth, showing a preference for organizations embedded in local response systems. Its recent grants are consistently tied to operating needs rather than short-term projects, which points to a focus on service continuity for agencies working in forensic, therapeutic, and multidisciplinary child-protection settings. Across the recent grant list, the recipients include advocacy centers, children’s trauma providers, and sheriff’s-office-affiliated programs, all within Georgia. The structure of the grants suggests a funder supporting the infrastructure behind child-abuse response, not only direct service delivery. This makes the foundation relevant to researchers tracking stable funding for county, regional, and statewide child protection capacity in Georgia.

What Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Funds

A major theme is child advocacy center infrastructure. In 2025, the foundation gave $66,750 to Georgia Center for Child Advocacy for operating support and $66,750 to CAC Thomson - Child Enrichment Inc for the same purpose, underscoring its emphasis on keeping local centers staffed and functioning. Another clear area is trauma and sexual-assault response for children: Wellspring Living received $117,585 in 2024 for operating support, and the organization also received $110,565 in 2023. The foundation also backs sheriff’s-office and judicial-circuit models. Care Cottage Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received $61,375 in 2025 and $51,125 in 2024, while CAC Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit received $41,125 in 2024. Those awards show support for multidisciplinary child-protection systems that connect advocacy, law enforcement, and treatment.

How Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Gives