· Private foundation
Columbus Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KEYS PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| MOST HOLY ROSARY PARISH | $3,000 |
| NORTH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $1,500 |
| MARCELLUS FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| FAMILIES FOR EFFECTIVE AUTISM TREATMENT OF CNY | $1,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| CATHEDRAL ACADEMY AT POMPEI | $750 |
| FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH OF GOD | $750 |
| L'ARCHE SYRACUSE | $750 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESOURCES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $750 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CNY CHAPTER | $750 |
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 (FY24–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FFFAMILIES FOR EFFECTIVE AUTISM TREATMENT OF CENTRAL NEW YORK8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%
- IMIN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC7× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +205%
- KCKEYS CORP2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- KFKARAS FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2k
- FBFOOD BANK OF CNYone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SSSPAULDING SUPPORT SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Our mission is to help people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, and our first priority is those who live with the challenges associated with developmental disabilities.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Provides transdisciplinary behavioral intervention and education to children and young adults, ages six to twenty-one, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.
Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
Our mission is to evaluate individual needs, develop nurturing, therapeutic learning environments and foster professional growth. we believe that family, staff and community collaboration is the cornerstone of our success.
To assist people with developmental disabilities and their families in gaining access to services and support appropriate to their needs.
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
To provide family and child-centered applied behavior analysis (aba) therapy for children with autism and other related disorders. we work with families to provide aba therapy in the home, community, at our support center, and (in special…
Our Mission is to help individuals with autism and their families experience more joy and achieve meaningful life outcomes by providing evidence-based therapies, innovative programs and continuous advocacy.
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Association, Inc. provides a wide range of information, advocacy, and support services for individuals and families with Li Fraumeni Syndrome. We support a consortium of researchers, medical providers and caregivers to…
To lead the fight to cure and treat als through global, cutting edge research and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is L'arche Syracuse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childrens' Glaucoma 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.
12 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. 12 of the 27 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 FAMILIES FOR EFFECTIVE AUTISM TREATMENT OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT SWAMP CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds ACCESSCNY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTHILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS' GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESOURCES OF CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds L'ARCHE SYRACUSE 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.
Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Foundation 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.
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