· Private foundation
The Cliboca 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $654k
- $250k+1 grant · $512k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA | $511,522 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $246,419 |
| MIDTOWN INC | $204,513 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC | $203,187 |
| MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS | $30,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY EPISCOPAL MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $20,000 |
| MUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VOICES OF THE VALLEY | $15,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOL | $10,130 |
| RIVERCENTER INC | $10,000 |
| TREES COLUMBUS INC | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $768k 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
- SOSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC8× · 2018–2025 · $239k · revenue +104%
- MOMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +144%
- CVChattahoochee Valley Episcopal8× · 2018–2025 · $169k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TWTHE WYNN HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -48%
- GSGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Incone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +9%
- ESEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +20%
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.
Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public
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.
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum is a historic non-profit facility operated by a volunteer board of directors. The mission is to ensure space for on-going community events and raise funds to preserve and maintain the historic…
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…
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.
Downtown revitalization
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
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…
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wynn House 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds Chattahoochee Valley Episcopal ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSCOGEE EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ACCC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE-PORTERDALE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PEGGY CROSBY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Patton 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 The Cliboca 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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