· Private foundation
Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc’s FY2019 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. FY2019 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $86k. 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k20 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL UMC | $40,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| MIDTOWN INC | $7,000 |
| THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM | $5,880 |
| EASTER SEALS | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,000 |
| ST PETER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| STEWART COMMUNITY HOME | $2,000 |
| THE RIVER OF COLUMBUS CHURCH | $1,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| RIVERCENTER | $1,000 |
| COALITION FOR SOUND GROWTH | $1,000 |
| HOPE HARBOUR | $1,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 22%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 93% of Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WGWesley Glen Ministries Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +68%
- HCHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +233%
- ESEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CSColumbus State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +69%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- CHColumbus Housing Initiative Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +147%
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 Board of REALTORS is a visible advocate of the real estate industry, providing members with career building education and enhancing the quality of life in our community.
Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities
The purpose of the greater columbus chamber of commerce is to promote and develop civic, educational, commercial and industrial interests in columbus, georgia and certain surrounding areas.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
Entrusted with the responsibility to improve the community's quality of life, the columbus foundation embraces the following: to assist donors and others in strengthening and improving the community for the benefit of all its residents.
The columbus youth foundation supports recreational programs for underprivileged youth in columbus.
Support to the greater columbus chamber of commerce for expenses related to the young professionals, partners in education, and inter-city leadership programs in the columbus, georgia area.
Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverdale-Porterdale Cemetery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus Housing Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COWETA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE-PORTERDALE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
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 · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Thornton Jordan Family Foundation Inc · The Cliboca Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · The Patton 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 Jackson-Burgin Foundation 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.
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.