About North Georgia Community Foundation
The North Georgia Community Foundation helps people and nonprofits invest generously in the lives of those who call our community home.
Focus Areas
Community developmentEducation and scholarshipsYouth developmentFood securityDomestic violence and victim servicesBehavioral health and recovery supportAccessibility and disability servicesNonprofit capacity building
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizationslocal communities / community-based organizationsvulnerable or underserved populations served by human services
Funding Style
About North Georgia Community Foundation
North Georgia Community Foundation Inc stands out for combining a large local grantmaking footprint with a broad mix of community priorities across North Georgia. In the recent grants list, the biggest award went to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Fo in Atlanta for $4,896,350, while Gainesville-based Good News Clinics received $4,680,506 in 2025 and $3,727,235 in 2024. Those three awards show the foundation working at both regional scale and community scale, with health funding reaching major institutions as well as local providers. The same pattern appears in education, where the University of North Georgia Foundat in Dahlonega received $2,008,500 in 2023, and in youth services, where Boys & Girls Clubs of Lanier in Gainesville received $1,302,250 in 2025 and $1,207,593 in 2023. The foundation also supports human services, environmental work, arts and culture, religion-linked community assets, and animal welfare, with grants landing across a mix of established nonprofits and community-serving institutions. Its grantmaking is local in scope and heavily centered in Georgia.
What North Georgia Community Foundation Funds
Health and human services are central to the foundation’s recent giving. Good News Clinics in Gainesville received $4,680,506 in 2025 and $3,727,235 in 2024, while United Way of Hall County in Gainesville received $393,433 in 2025 and $228,471 in 2024. In youth development, Boys & Girls Clubs of Lanier in Gainesville received $1,302,250 in 2025 and $1,207,593 in 2023. Education funding also runs through scholarship and institutional channels: the University of North Georgia Foundat in Dahlonega received $2,008,500 in 2023, and Athens Tech Foundation Inc in Athens received $1,147,635 in 2025. Beyond those core areas, the foundation has supported environmental and cultural work, including Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in Atlanta for $408,765 in 2024 and Northeast Georgia History Center in Gainesville for $285,000 in 2025.
How North Georgia Community Foundation Gives
Typical awards cluster in the mid-five-figure range, with p25 at $8,690, a median of $14,500, and p75 at $32,933. The recent grants list also shows a much larger set of strategic and institutional awards alongside smaller community grants. Repeat recipients appear across multiple years, including Good News Clinics, Boys & Girls Clubs of Lanier, Northeast Georgia Health System Fou, Gainesville First United Methodist, and United Way of Hall County, suggesting ongoing relationships rather than isolated one-time gifts. The foundation is a community foundation, and its active programs include annual application cycles, catalytic opportunity grants, and scholarship funds administered on behalf of fundholders. Both unsolicited scholarship applications and community grant applications are accepted through named programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$20M
Total Assets
$126M
Total Revenue
$25.8M
Total Expenses
$24.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $9K and $33K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$9K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$33K
Geographic Reach
Local24 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
MICHELLE PRATER
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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