· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - COLUMBUS | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL EFFECT MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $3,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| TMS GLOBAL | $3,000 |
| AFRICA RURAL MISSION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| COLUMBUS BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| RIVERCENTER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -54% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CARILLON BEACH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds JEEAH'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cms Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cms Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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