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The Cms 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 $10k36 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $16,000 |
| RIGHT FROM THE START | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - COLUMBUS | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL EFFECT MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY | $5,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $3,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| TMS GLOBAL | $3,000 |
| AFRICA RURAL MISSION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TRUTHSPRING (HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH) | $2,500 |
| COLUMBUS BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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 +23% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- RFRIGHT FROM THE START7× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +23%
- GEGlobal Effect Ministry Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +20%
- TSTRUTH SPRING INC6× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +598%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $28k
- TPTURNING POINT MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PEPINE EDEN CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Gospel mission
To inspire, gather, and activate followers of jesus to pursue the common good in our city.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Propagate the gospel of jesus christ through preaching at established churches; establishing new churchs, christian schools, and orphanages; supporting foreign missionary out-reach; provide training for pastors and lay-persons
Christianity explored usa equips church's and individuals in evangelism by exploring jesus in the bible in a relational environment.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical
Our mission is drawing on timeless wisdom and the living word, we are a community serving the triune god and our brothers and sisters through study dedicated to encouraging self-knowledge and fostering spiritual maturity.
You turn ministries conducts christian evangelical ministries in the us and abroad.
To serve christian ministries and individuals in their pursuit of a christian education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truth Spring 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 71 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 RIGHT FROM THE START ↗
- Who funds Global Effect Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds International Friendship Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CARILLON BEACH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds JEEAH'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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 · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Swift Illges Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation
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 Cms 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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