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Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$86k
Granted FY2018
21
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’17
14
’18
3
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2019.

Philanthropy$2.2MReligion$87kArts & Culture$30kHealth$28kCommunity Improvement$15kEnvironment$4kYouth Development$4kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2018 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k20 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PAUL UMC$40,000
WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES$8,000
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$8,000
MIDTOWN INC$7,000
THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM$5,880
ST PETER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,000
EASTER SEALS$2,000
COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,000
STEWART COMMUNITY HOME$2,000
THE RIVER OF COLUMBUS CHURCH$1,500
HOPE HARBOUR$1,000
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE$1,000
COALITION FOR SOUND GROWTH$1,000
RIVERCENTER$1,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 22%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $750 → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 93% of Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 8%.

Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$163k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+69%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WG
    Wesley Glen Ministries Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +68%
  • HC
    HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +233%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CS
    Columbus State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +69%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • GI
    GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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

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.

1
Columbus Board of Realtors Inc

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.

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2
Columbus Charities

Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities

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3
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
5
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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6
Columbus Music Commission

To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.

Community Improvement
7
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Columbus Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
Columbus Youth Foundation

The columbus youth foundation supports recreational programs for underprivileged youth in columbus.

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10
Columbus Alliance for Regional Investment Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
The Columbus Museum

Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public

Arts & Culture
12
Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 39 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $2,240,770 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyST PAUL UMC: $80,000 · OtherWesley Glen Ministries Inc: $24,000 · OtherHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM: $5,880 · Other+20 more: $19,850 · OtherMIDTOWN INC: $14,000 · Community ImprovementTrees Columbus Inc: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCOLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERCENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $750 · Arts & CultureEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $4,000 · HealthColumbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour: $2,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $2,250 · Environment
Philanthropy$2,241,270Other$145,730Community Improvement$15,000Arts & Culture$8,250Health$4,000Human Services$3,250Environment$2,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $2,240,770 over 2y, 10% of budgetWesley Glen Ministries Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMIDTOWN INC: $14,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Housing Initiative Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOWETA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE-PORTERDALE CEMETERY: $250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Lockwood Partners Fou…The Jordan Foundation…Georgia Power Foundat…Mildred Miller Fort F…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Thornton Jordan Famil…The Cliboca Foundatio…The Daniel P Amos Fam…Bradley-Turner Founda…Richard and Helen Rob…The Patton Foundation…
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 39 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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