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The George Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k47 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $300,000 |
| WOSU STATIONS FUND | $40,000 |
| BALLET METROPOLITAN | $40,000 |
| KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,100 |
| CAPITAL AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,100 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,075 |
| PRO MUSICA | $1,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIV BUCKS FOR CHARITY | $500 |
| COLONY CATS & DOGS RESCUE | $450 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $450 |
| OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER | $450 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $400 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $300 |
| ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER | $299 |
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 (FY19–25, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
70 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- CSCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +85%
- BMBALLET METROPOLITAN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +43%
- KHKALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SNSMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOone grant, 2024 · $100
The Ohio University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +200%- WWINTERTHURone grant, 2017 · $100
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To inspire, through science and education, a passion for nature, the protection of natural diversity, the fostering of health, and leadership to a sustainable future.
The mission of cas/pnnm is to create a positive relationship between people and nature through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibits and public forums that foster urban connections to our region's nature and science.
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Archaeological Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Cahokia Mounds Museum Society. 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 56 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 90 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 COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COZY CAT COTTAGE ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR RESOURCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Meuse Family Foundation · Greater Columbus Arts Council · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The John J and Pauline Gerlach 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 George Foundation 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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