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Columbia Association Inc

Engage our diverse community, cultivate a unique sense of place and enhance quality of life.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$510k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.6M
$325,876
Median grant
1
States reached
$182M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%The Howard County Veterans Foundation: $80k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 12 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$17M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+2578%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +87% · 76% of their budget
  • WL
    WILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +45% · 82% of their budget
  • OM
    OAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +53% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • HC
    HOWARD COUNTY VETERANS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $80k · revenue ×27
  • HP
    HOCO PRIDE INC
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rolling Hills Community Association of Rancho Palos Verdes

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…

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2
Hemlock Farms Community Association

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

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3
Highlands Ranch Community Association Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
4
Georgetown South Community Council Inc

Maintenance of common property within a homeowners' association.

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5
Harbison Community Association Inc

Maintenance of common areas and recreational facilities for the common enjoyment of members of the harbison community association in columbia south carolina

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6
Kiawah Island Community Association Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
The Oaks Park Association

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,…

Recreation & Sports
8
Sunriver Owners Association

Community safety & management

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9
Bridgewater Village Inc

Retirement housing

Housing & Shelter
10
Douglas Manor Association Inc

The association employs staff and maintains common property (pier, lockers, playground, equipemnt and grounds).

Housing & Shelter
11
Village Communities Development Ctr
International
12
River Oaks Property Owners Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickory Ridge Community Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG REACH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,252,742 · OtherLONG REACH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCHARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,896,932 · OtherHARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCWILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,875,805 · OtherWILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCOAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,774,710 · OtherOAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCOWEN BROWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,620,298 · OtherOWEN BROWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCRIVER HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,541,565 · OtherRIVER HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCKINGS CONTRIVANCE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,528,833 · OtherKINGS CONTRIVANCE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCHICKORY RIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,512,044 · OtherHICKORY RIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCDORSEY'S SEARCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION I: $1,462,835 · OtherDORSEY'S SEARCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION I+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA TOWN CENTER RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1,518,440 · Community ImprovementCOLUMBIA T…+1 more: $32,500 · Community ImprovementInner Arbor Trust Inc: $369,887 · Arts & CultureHOWARD COUNTY VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Human Services
Other$15,475,764Community Improvement$1,550,940Arts & Culture$369,887Human Services$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLONG REACH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,252,742 over 5y, 85% of budgetHARPER'S CHOICE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,896,932 over 5y, 76% of budgetWILDE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,875,805 over 5y, 82% of budgetOAKLAND MILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,774,710 over 5y, 93% of budgetOWEN BROWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,620,298 over 5y, 87% of budgetRIVER HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,541,565 over 5y, 79% of budgetKINGS CONTRIVANCE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,528,833 over 5y, 82% of budgetCOLUMBIA TOWN CENTER RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1,518,440 over 5y, 69% of budgetHICKORY RIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,512,044 over 5y, 89% of budgetDORSEY'S SEARCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION I: $1,462,835 over 5y, 88% of budgetInner Arbor Trust Inc: $369,887 over 3y, 45% of budgetThe Downtown Columbia Partnership: $32,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Columbia Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbia Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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