· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 55 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hardaway Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hardaway Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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