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Columbus Memory Center and Health Education at a glance

· Private foundation

Columbus Memory Center and Health Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$152kHealth$128kArts & Culture$96kReligion$84kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUSTO Columbus State University$40,000
Alzheimers Association$10,000
Columbus State University$10,000
Temple Israel$6,000
Operation Christmas Child Clegg$1,000
Georgia Public Broadcasting$10
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lakewood Baptist Church: $4k → 22%Americas Tooth Fairy: $1k → 10%Operation Christmas Child Clegg: $1k → 21%Morehouse School of Medicine: $2k → 13%Oakridge CME Church: $3k → 17%Temple Israel: $16k → 18%Adventist Community ServicesSG: $10k → 25%Lakewood Baptist Church: $4k → 22%Operation Christmas Child Clegg: $1k → 21%Georgia Public Broadcasting: $10 → 13%Temple Israel: $10k → 18%Lakewood Baptist Church: $2k → 22%Temple Israel: $10k → 18%Lakewood Baptist Church: $1k → 22%Temple Israel: $10k → 18%Lakewood Baptist Church: $1k → 22%Temple Israel: $6k → 18%Temple Israel: $5k → 18%Greater Peace Baptist Church: $3k → 18%Temple Israel: $939 → 18%Gusto Columbus State University: $40k → 18%GUSTO Columbus State University: $40k → 18%Schwob School of Music: $30k → 18%Schwob School of Music: $30k → 18%Schwob School of Music: $20k → 18%Schwob School of Music CSU: $20k → 18%GUSTO Columbus State University: $20k → 18%GUSTO Columbus State University: $20k → 18%Alzheimers Association: $23k → 18%Piedmont Columbus Regional Foundati: $20k → 18%Alzheimers Association: $21k → 18%Schwob School of Music: $10k → 18%Alzheimers Association: $21k → 18%Schwob School of Music: $5k → 18%Alzheimers Association: $16k → 18%Agape Missionary Baptist Church: $3k → 18%Alzheimers Association: $10k → 18%Metropolitan Baptist Church: $1k → 18%New Horizons Behavior Health: $5k → 18%Youth Orchestra Of Greater Columbus: $500 → 18%Alzheimers Association: $1k → 18%Columbus Highschool Alumni Assoc: $500 → 18%Alzheimers Association: $1k → 18%Central Christian Church: $3k → 18%Shaw High School: $150 → 18%Columbus State University: $10k → 18%Columbus State University: $1k → 18%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 8 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$400k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+36%

Still filing today

13%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • GC
    GUSTO Columbus State University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k
  • SS
    Schwob School of Music
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k
  • AA
    Alzheimers Association
    7× · 2017–2024 · $93k

Funded once

  • SS
    Schwob School of Music CSU
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • PC
    Piedmont Columbus Regional Foundati
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AC
    Adventist Community ServicesSG
    one grant, 2021 · $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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUSTO Columbus State University: $120,000 · OtherGUSTO Columbus State UniversitySchwob School of Music: $95,292 · OtherSchwob School of MusicAlzheimers Association: $92,700 · OtherAlzheimers AssociationTEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $58,414 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCSchwob School of Music CSU: $20,000 · OtherPiedmont Columbus Regional Foundati: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $52,660 · Other+12 moreMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $9,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · EducationAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthMetropolitan Baptist Church Inc: $1,000 · ReligionYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$459,066Education$9,500Health$1,000Religion$1,000Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Baptist Church Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Columbus Memory Center and Health Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Memory Center and Health Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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