· Public charity
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $23,274 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,814 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,540 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC | $4,219 |
| TREE COUNTY PLAYERS | $1,839 |
| DANCER'S STUDIO INC | $1,839 |
| BATESVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $1,839 |
| DEARBORN HIGHLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC | $1,596 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,596 |
| SOUTHERN INDIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,596 |
| JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $1,250 |
| OUR HERITAGE INC | $1,250 |
| COLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL | $1,250 |
| COLUMBUS CITY BAND | $1,250 |
| ACTORS COMMUNITY THEATER OF SEYMOUR INC | $1,250 |
| OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN INDIANA | $1,250 |
| ETHNIC EXPO - CITY OF COLUMBUS | $1,250 |
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 (FY18–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +16%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +131%
- CSCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SISoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%
- CVCOLUMBUS VISITOR CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SCSwitzerland County Historical Society Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -55%
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.
Preserving the Presentation of Chamber Music
Educate, present & promote the arts
Performing arts concerts and arts in education
Providing high quality music education
Support of the Central Iowa Symphony, a local community orchestra
Our mission is to provide a variety of creative collaborative experiences that allow children and adults in Kosciusko County the opportunity to discover develop and share their musical and artistic gifts.
Presentation of symphony orchestra and chamber music concerts benefiting 50-700 patrons per event
Production
Preservation of the arts
Arts & entertainment for seymour area
Provide quality orchestral performances in the Muscatine community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Switzerland County Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 COLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds Batesville Area Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TREE COUNTY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Switzerland County Historical Society Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Columbus Area Arts Council 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 or a single department — 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.