· Private foundation
Columbus Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| FAMILIES FOR EFFECTIVE AUTISM TREATMENT OF CNY | $1,500 |
| CATHEDRAL ACADEMY AT POMPEI | $750 |
| L'ARCHE SYRACUSE | $750 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESOURCES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $750 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CNY CHAPTER | $750 |
| FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH OF GOD | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Columbus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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