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The Frank G Lumpkin Jr Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Frank G Lumpkin Jr 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.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$388kHuman Services$219kEducation$183kReligion$94kHealth$48kHousing & Shelter$21kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chattahoochee Council BSA$35,700
Grace Presbyterian Church$15,000
1909 Preservation Society$11,700
National Infantry Museum$10,000
Columbus Technical College$10,000
Springer Opera House$6,700
Historic Linwood Foundation$5,000
The Salvation Army$5,000
The University of Georgia$5,000
YMCA$5,000
Truth Spring Inc$2,500
Mercy Med of Columbus Inc$2,500
Kiwanis Club of Columbus$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%National Infantry Museum: $61k → 18%The University of Georgia: $15k → 27%National Infantry Museum: $60k → 18%The University of Georgia: $5k → 27%National Infantry Museum: $60k → 18%The University of Georgia: $5k → 27%National Infantry Museum: $60k → 18%National Infantry Museum: $60k → 18%National Infantry Museum: $10k → 18%National Infantry Museum: $10k → 18%1909 Preservation Society: $12k → 18%1909 Preservation Society: $12k → 18%Mercer Medical School Fund: $20k → 18%Mercer Medical School Fund: $20k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $20k → 18%Mercer Medical School Fund: $20k → 18%Mercer Medical School Fund: $20k → 18%Mercer Medical School Fund: $20k → 18%Springer Opera House: $7k → 18%Springer Opera House: $7k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $15k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $6k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $15k → 18%Historic Linwood Foundation: $5k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Historic Linwood Foundation: $5k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Historic Linwood Foundation: $5k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Historic Linwood Foundation: $5k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Grace Presbyterian Church: $10k → 18%Columbus Technical College: $10k → 18%Valley Rescue Mission: $10k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $61k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $36k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $36k → 18%Chattahoochee Council BSA: $10k → 18%The Salvation Army: $6k → 18%The Salvation Army: $6k → 18%The Salvation Army: $5k → 18%YMCA: $5k → 18%YMCA: $5k → 18%YMCA: $5k → 18%The Salvation Army: $5k → 18%The Salvation Army: $5k → 18%Columbus State University: $7k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$934k · 18 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$934k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+144%
+40%

Still filing today

39%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • HL
    HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +250%
  • MO
    MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
    7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +144%
  • TS
    TRUTH SPRING INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +891%

Funded once

  • VR
    VALLEY RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • GF
    Gateway Foundation Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • EB
    Edgewood Baptist Church
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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 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
2
Columbus Charities

Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities

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3
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
4
The Columbus Museum

Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public

Arts & Culture
5
The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc

Maintenance and operation of a botanical garden for the education and betterment of the local community.

Environment
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 Ga Pickleball Assoc Inc

To build and promote a public pickleball facility in columbus, ga.

Recreation & Sports
8
Ross County Historical Society Inc

The Ross County Historical Societys mission is to preserve, educate, and promote the study of the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, and the surrounding region.

Arts & Culture
9
For Columbus

To inspire, gather, and activate followers of jesus to pursue the common good in our city.

Human Services
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…

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11
Columbus Aquatic Club Inc

To provide an avenue for youth of the columbus, georgia area to train and compete in swimming.

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12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercymed of Columbus Inc Attn Tony Nguyen; the most unlike its peers is Columbus High School Alumni Association 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

9 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. 9 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Infantry Museum: $321,000 · OtherNational Infantry MuseumChattahoochee Council BSA: $172,100 · OtherChattahoochee Council BSAMercer Medical School Fund: $100,000 · OtherMercer Medical School FundGrace Presbyterian Church: $90,000 · OtherGrace Presbyterian ChurchThe University of Georgia: $37,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $33,000 · Other+8 more: $93,000 · Other+8 moreHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & Culture1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $23,400 · Arts & CultureSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $13,400 · Arts & CultureMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: $17,500 · HealthGateway Foundation Inc: $2,500 · HealthTRUTH SPRING INC: $11,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · Education
Other$846,100Arts & Culture$66,800Health$20,000Community Improvement$11,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budget1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $23,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKiwanis Club of Columbus GA Inc: $14,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $13,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH SPRING INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGateway Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
  • Who funds Kiwanis Club of Columbus GA Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gateway Foundation Inc ↗

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 …John P and Dorothy S …The Jordan Foundation…Beloco Foundation IncGb & Ca Saunders Foun…Mildred Miller Fort F…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Lockwood Partners Fou…Bradley-Turner Founda…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA19.8× affinity7 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 · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Frank G Lumpkin Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank G Lumpkin Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 22 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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