THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

693 HUMPHRIES ST SW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• Established in 1927, The Empty Stocking Fund (ESF) is a cornerstone of Atlanta's philanthropic community. While originally founded to bring joy to children during the holiday season, ESF has evolved into a year-round 501(c)(3) bridging the resource gap for low-income families and under-resourced educators across the metropolitan area. ESF operates with a dual focus: ensuring every child experiences the dignity of the holidays and every student has the tools to succeed in the classroom. We accomplish our mission through three programs: 1. Support for Families during the Christmas and Holiday Season: This past December, ESF served 27,000+ children from over 10,000 families, providing gifts that promote joy, dignity, and inclusion. No organization in Georgia has the infrastructure or capacity to meet at this high level of need. 2. Teacher Resource Center (TRC): ESF operates the largest TRC in Georgia, supporting Title I educators. Last year over 4,000 teachers "shopped" for up to $500 worth of classroom supplies and essentials. With over 9,000 teachers currently on their waiting list, ESF is aggressively scaling its operations to ensure no classroom in the Greater Atlanta area goes unsupported. The TRC is supported mainly through in-kind donations received and processed at our 25,000+ square foot warehouse in Atlanta. 3. Student Readiness Kits: Leveraging purchasing power through national partnerships and closeout vendors, ESF distributed nearly 30,000 Student Readiness Kits packed with core learning essentials through strategic school district partnerships. Nearly a century after our founding, we continue to evolve-scaling our reach to meet the growing needs of metropolitan Atlanta's families, students, and educators, one gift and one classroom at a time.

  Expenses $3,607,597 · Grants $2,866,480 · Revenue $170,690

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $4,892,069

  Expenses

  $3,997,467

  Contributions

  $4,635,442

  Grants paid

  $2,866,480

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,021,913

  Expenses

  $2,739,975

  Contributions

  $2,597,824

  Grants paid

  $1,655,039

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,151,728

  Expenses

  $2,463,306

  Contributions

  $1,701,707

  Grants paid

  $1,329,985

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,201,714

  Expenses

  $2,733,146

  Contributions

  $1,867,669

  Grants paid

  $1,415,165

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,169,289

  Expenses

  $2,400,287

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,409,829

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,525,453

  Expenses

  $2,088,680

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,552,769

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,427,335

  Expenses

  $1,550,157

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,635,486

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,160,111

  Expenses

  $979,745

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,959,297

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,109,971

  Expenses

  $997,051

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,769,838

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,119,910

  Expenses

  $1,124,541

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,683,748

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,075,453

  Expenses

  $1,123,534

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,671,283

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,170,821

  Expenses

  $1,100,794

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,711,461

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,236,837

  Expenses

  $1,088,601

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,664,301

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,125,601

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,465,288

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• THDF II INC

  $182,500

  2024 · To assist local charities

• THDF II INC

  $157,500

  2023 · To assist local charities

• THDF II INC

  $157,500

  2022 · To assist local charities

• IMPACT100 ATLANTA INC

  $82,861

  2025

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA

  $64,225

  2025 · CHARITABLE PURPOSE

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA

  $60,510

  2023 · CHARITABLE PURPOSE

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA

  $55,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE PURPOSE

• ATLANTA PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INC

  $51,000

  2023 · BACKPACK AND SCHOOL SUPPLY FUNDING

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC

  $28,100

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC

  $26,500

  2022 · ARTS/CULTURE/HUMANITIES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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