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Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc
The community foundation of the chattahoochee valley enables and promotes philanthropy that inspires, facilitates and fosters a vibrant and engaged chattahoochee valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 220 grants below total $37,541,858 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,522,949 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $981,091 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k122 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+22 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $8,000,000 |
| NEMA FOUNDATION INC DBA PROVISIONBRIDGE | $8,000,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,668,880 |
| STIFEL CHARITABLE INC | $1,876,439 |
| MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,602,980 |
| DIRECT & PAYMENTS ON BEHALF OF MULTIPLE CHARITABLE & 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION | $1,380,941 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC | $1,338,290 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,100,500 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $976,024 |
| THE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INC | $525,000 |
| COLUMBUS GA PICKLEBALL ASSOC INC | $475,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC | $474,483 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $458,285 |
| ST LUKE CHURCH OF COLUMBUS INC DBA ST LUKE CHURCH | $419,600 |
| COLUMBUS REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC | $332,083 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
347 repeat relationships — 171 still active in FY2024, 176 since wound down; 39 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +61%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +112%
- CRColumbus Regional Medical Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +179%
Funded once
- DPdirect & payments on behalf of 33 charitable & 501(3) organizationsone grant, 2017 · $1.1M
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +11%- DPDIRECT & PAYMENTS ON BEHALF OF 20 CHARITABLE & 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2020 · $580k
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Steps 2 Walk Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
473 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. 473 of the 622 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus Regional Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Stifel Charitable Inc ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds DRAGONFLY TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DO GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
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: Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Soma Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · The Cms Foundation Inc
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 Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.