· Private foundation
Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $760k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $1,750,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $901,437 |
| PASTORAL INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| MERCY MED OF COLUMBUS INC | $300,000 |
| VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $250,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY | $160,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| STANDING BOY INC | $150,000 |
| COLUMBUS GA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| COLUMBUS SCHOLARS INC | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN COLUMBUS GA | $50,000 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| RIVERCENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
- FTFeeding the Valley Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +836%
- HCHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $900k · revenue +51% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- PCPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- SOSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +117% · 40% of their budget
- ESEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $501k · revenue +62%
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.
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
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.
To promote, preserve and maintain the historic golf course designed by renowned architect donald ross located at 2610 cherokee avenue in columbus, georgia, the historic clubhouse located on the same grounds adjacent to the golf course, and…
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.
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.
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…
Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities
The organization was established to support the heritage fund - the community foundation of bartholomew county, inc., the city of columbus and bartholomew county in indiana by preserving and maintaining land and buildings of historic or…
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Economic Development Corporation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Standing Boy Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 81 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Standing Boy Inc ↗
- Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS GA PICKLEBALL ASSOC 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 · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · The Cliboca Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins 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 Mildred Miller Fort 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.
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