Maryland · Public charity
Columbia Association Inc
Engage our diverse community, cultivate a unique sense of place and enhance quality of life.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $325,876
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $510,381
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $182M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Columbia Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $3.7M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $3.2M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $3.4M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Community Improvement$17MArts & Culture$370kHuman Services$80kCivil Rights$10k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Reach Community Association Inc | $2,252,742 | 5 | 85% |
| Harper's Choice Community Association Inc | $1,896,932 | 5 | 76% |
| Wilde Lake Community Association Inc | $1,875,805 | 5 | 82% |
| Oakland Mills Community Association Inc | $1,774,710 | 5 | 93% |
| Owen Brown Community Association Inc | $1,620,298 | 5 | 87% |
| River Hill Community Association Inc | $1,541,565 | 5 | 79% |
| Kings Contrivance Community Association Inc | $1,528,833 | 5 | 82% |
| Columbia Town Center Residential Community Association | $1,518,440 | 5 | 69% |
| Hickory Ridge Community Association Inc | $1,512,044 | 5 | 89% |
| Dorsey's Search Community Association I | $1,462,835 | 5 | 88% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Reach Community Association Inc | $2,252,742 | 5 | 85% |
| Harper's Choice Community Association Inc | $1,896,932 | 5 | 76% |
| Wilde Lake Community Association Inc | $1,875,805 | 5 | 82% |
| Oakland Mills Community Association Inc | $1,774,710 | 5 | 93% |
| Owen Brown Community Association Inc | $1,620,298 | 5 | 87% |
| River Hill Community Association Inc | $1,541,565 | 5 | 79% |
| Kings Contrivance Community Association Inc | $1,528,833 | 5 | 82% |
| Columbia Town Center Residential Community Association | $1,518,440 | 5 | 69% |
| Hickory Ridge Community Association Inc | $1,512,044 | 5 | 89% |
| Dorsey's Search Community Association I | $1,462,835 | 5 | 88% |
| Inner Arbor Trust Inc | $369,887 | 3 | 45% |
| Howard County Veterans Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Downtown Columbia Partnership | $32,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Hoco Pride Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Columbia Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.
About Columbia Association Inc
- How much does Columbia Association Inc give?
- Columbia Association Inc reported 13 grants totaling $3,737,757 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Columbia Association Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (97%), Arts & Culture (2%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Columbia Association Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Long Reach Community Association Inc ($2.3M), Harper's Choice Community Association Inc ($1.9M), Wilde Lake Community Association Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Columbia Association Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Columbia Association Inc based?
- Columbia Association Inc is based in MD.
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