· Private foundation
Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $30,000 |
| MARCUS AUTISM CENTER | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $5,000 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| MUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF GEORGIA | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +65% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $366k · revenue +65%
- CICHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +242%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CSCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $23k
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +94%- CSCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - SCHWOB SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 37 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Camp Judaea Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS 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 · Pat and Jack Wilensky Family Foundation · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Patton Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift 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 Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman 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.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.