· Private foundation
Joann F Holt Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS | $3,200 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| 1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $2,561 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| THE WYNN HOUSE | $2,000 |
| MIDTOWN INC | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALEM CHURCH | $1,000 |
| KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING | $500 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH | $450 |
| ANCIENT WAY FARM INC | $450 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $210 |
| MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 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
- TWTHE WYNN HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +40%
- HLHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +250%
- CSColumbus State University Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
- CACAMP ASCCAone grant, 2023 · $1k
- GAGRACE ATHENS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 mission of the columbus indiana architectural archives is to collect, conserve and promote the use of records that document the architectural engineering and arts associated with built environments of columbus, indiana.
To build and promote a public pickleball facility in columbus, ga.
Trees Columbus was formed to plant, preserve and protect the city of Columbus, Georgia's environment, especially trees, urban forests and natural surroundings. Trees Columbus is also charged with serving as an advocate for our city's…
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
Education concerning the american revolution, commemorations thereof and other activities to preserve its heritage; historic preservation, renovation, and conservation of historically significant properties in the state of georgia, united…
Support of the society of the cincinnati and historical preservation and restoration in the united states.
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
Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places
To provide an avenue for youth of the columbus, georgia area to train and compete in swimming.
Angels among us pet rescue, inc. is a 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to rescuing dogs and cats from shelters and other at-risk situations across georgia. they operate through a network of foster homes in the metro atlanta area and hold pet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds 1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ANCIENT WAY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds EAST ALABAMA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CARE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAWS Humane Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION 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 · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · The Cliboca Foundation Inc · Beloco 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 Joann F Holt Family 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.