· Private foundation
John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $476k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUTH SPRING INC | $165,000 |
| NATIONAL INFANTRY FOUNDATION | $140,750 |
| ST LUKE SCHOOL | $120,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK | $25,000 |
| MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS | $25,000 |
| CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| HOUSE OF HEROES | $15,000 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of its 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.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN5× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +114%
- FTFeeding the Valley Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +843%
- NINATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC2× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NINATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $186k
- BSBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +27%
- TCTeen Challengeone grant, 2017 · $40k
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 community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Colony retirement homes iii is dedicated to providing affordable housing for seniors of low and moderate income.
Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.
To inspire, gather, and activate followers of jesus to pursue the common good in our city.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MICAH'S PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WESTVILLE ↗
- Who funds Columbus Housing Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds House of Heroes Chattahoochee ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PAWS Humane Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
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 · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Swift Illges Foundation Inc · The Cms Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Woodruff Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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