· Private foundation
Jw & Ethel I Woodruff 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC | $300,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $245,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC | $216,000 |
| MIDTOWN INC | $200,000 |
| COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $111,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE | $80,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHATT VALLEY | $50,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF COLUMBUS | $30,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FDN INC | $26,000 |
| TWIN CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| WEST POINT ASSOC OF GRADUATES | $12,000 |
| FIGHTING ABUSE IN THE HOME | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- TCTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +88%
- SOSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +132%
- CSColumbus State University Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATAHOOCHEE VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $493k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +4%
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $99k · revenue +51%
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 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.
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spanish Mustang Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 113 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 MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WESTVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
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 · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Beloco Foundation Inc · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · Thornton Jordan Family 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 Jw & Ethel I Woodruff 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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.