· Private foundation
Hardaway Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Hardaway Foundation Incorporated’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Chattahoochee Valley Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Hardaway Foundation Incorporated named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $159k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| St Paul United Methodist Church | $25,000 |
| Episcopal High School | $20,000 |
| Columbus Museum | $20,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Chattahochee Valley | $16,038 |
| Columbus Botanical Gardens | $10,000 |
| Columbus Scholars Fund Columbus Community Foundation | $7,000 |
| WH Partners LLC | $5,688 |
| Springer Opera House | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- CSColumbus State University Foundation Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +138%
- SOSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +132%
- ESEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +125%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +25%
- GWGeorge Washington Mount Vernonone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To prov ide central state university students with financial assistance in the form of scholarships awards housing and fee reimbursements and help serve central state university educational undertakings
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mfha Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 55 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MFHA Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Walter Alan Richards Foundation · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Crowley Foundation Ann C Patterson - Trustee · Beloco Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders 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 Hardaway Foundation Incorporated 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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