· Public charity
Columbia Association Inc
Engage our diverse community, cultivate a unique sense of place and enhance quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+10 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Long Reach Community Association | $510,381 |
| Wilde Lake Community Association | $400,219 |
| Harper's Choice Community Association | $398,357 |
| Oakland Mills Community Association | $370,539 |
| Owen Brown Community Association | $337,456 |
| Town Center Community Association | $336,671 |
| Hickory Ridge Community Association | $325,876 |
| Kings Contrivance Community Association | $314,801 |
| River Hill Community Association | $314,271 |
| Dorsey's Search Community Association | $301,738 |
| The Howard County Veterans Foundation | $80,000 |
| Downtown Columbia Partnership | $22,500 |
| Howard County Pride | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HCHARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +87% · 76% of their budget
- WLWILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +45% · 82% of their budget
- OMOAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +49% · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- HCHOWARD COUNTY VETERANS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $80k · revenue ×27
- HPHOCO PRIDE INCone grant, 2025 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To maintain the roads and other common areas of the community, uphold the architectural standards of the community, operate the gates and assist the members of the Board, committees and members of the community in upholding and maintaining…
Hemlock farms community association was organized to provide for the current operations and future maintenance of common property at hemlock farms and provide services to its members
The association is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and welfare of the approximately 100,000 residents of highlands ranch and the surrounding areas. the association provides architectural control, covenant enforcement,…
Maintenance of common property within a homeowners' association.
Maintenance of common areas and recreational facilities for the common enjoyment of members of the harbison community association in columbia south carolina
The association is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of kiawah island. it accomplishes this by providing a framework to establish and enforce community expectations and standards; by…
To acquire, own, develop, preserve, beautify, reconstruct, restore, maintain, and operate a public park and public recreation facility, open to the general public as a community service, to be used to enhance recreation opportunities,…
Community safety & management
Retirement housing
The association employs staff and maintains common property (pier, lockers, playground, equipemnt and grounds).
The mission of the organization is to review and enforce residential building deed restrictions, arrange for trash collection services, maintain the river oaks security patrol, and care for parks and esplanades within the neighborhood.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickory Ridge Community Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Howard County Veterans Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LONG REACH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN BROWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS CONTRIVANCE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA TOWN CENTER RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HICKORY RIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DORSEY'S SEARCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION I ↗
- Who funds Inner Arbor Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Downtown Columbia Partnership ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Columbia Association Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.