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Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$12MArts & Culture$5.5MEducation$3.1MHealth$2.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEnvironment$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $760k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.6M
$160,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STANDING BOY INC$150,000
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$150,000
COLUMBUS GA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION$150,000
COLUMBUS SCHOLARS INC$100,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN COLUMBUS GA$50,000
RIVERCENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOME: $250k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 22 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
53

Total granted

$13M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+4%

Still filing today

77%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
  • FT
    Feeding the Valley Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +836%
  • HC
    HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $900k · revenue +51% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • PC
    PIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • SO
    SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +117% · 40% of their budget
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $501k · revenue +62%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Columbus Historic Preservation Trust

Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings

Unclassified
2
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
3
Historic Cobbham Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
4
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
5
1909 Preservation Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Columbus Alliance for Regional Investment Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Columbus Board of Realtors Inc

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.

—
8
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia

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…

—
9
Columbus Charities

Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities

—
10
Columbus Capital Foundation Inc

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…

—
11
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
12
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Economic Development Corporation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 81 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $8,362,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCH…UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $2,475,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY …+1 more: $24,000 · PhilanthropyPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 · OtherPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATIONHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · OtherHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INCCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $750,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGECOLUMBUS SPORTS COUNCIL: $500,002 · OtherPASTORAL INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 · OtherCSU FOUNDATION - OXFORD STUDY ABROAD: $500,000 · OtherColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $601,333 · OtherEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC: $501,171 · Other+44 more: $6,420,426 · Other+44 moreTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMB…SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGER O…COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS P…NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $273,652 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL I…RIVERCENTER INC: $165,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERCENTE…+6 more: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $999,449 · Community ImprovementTrees Columbus Inc: $194,533 · Community ImprovementThe Mill District Inc: $150,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN INC: $150,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementFeeding the Valley Inc: $1,181,068 · Food & NutritionTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $38,000 · Environment+1 more: $35,000 · EnvironmentFAMILY HOUSE OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $300,000 · HealthMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: $300,000 · HealthTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $80,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · Health
Philanthropy$10,861,800Other$13,022,932Arts & Culture$2,818,652Community Improvement$1,518,982Food & Nutrition$1,181,068Environment$1,073,000Health$805,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $8,362,800 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $2,475,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $1,181,068 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetCOLUMBUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $999,449 over 2y, 65% of budgetHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $601,333 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $350,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $319,090 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $300,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCOLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: $300,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $275,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $273,652 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetStanding Boy Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC: $165,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetThe Mill District Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $131,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WYNN HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $38,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetChattahoochee River Conservancy Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BALLET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetUPTOWN COLUMBUS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHouse of Heroes Chattahoochee: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetZION CHURCH RESTORATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetDO GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Lockwood Partners Fou…Bradley-Turner Founda…Georgia Power Foundat…The Jordan Foundation…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Jackson-Burgin Founda…The Daniel P Amos Fam…Gb & Ca Saunders Foun…The Cliboca Foundatio…Beloco Foundation IncRichard and Helen Rob…
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA86.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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