· Private foundation
The Jordan Foundation Inc
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 $10k24 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM | $117,500 |
| TRUTH SPRING INC | $62,500 |
| COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDEN | $57,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $27,500 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - BO BARTLETT CENTER | $27,000 |
| HISTORIC WESTVILLE | $25,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| PIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION INC | $6,500 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - PATRONS OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - FRIENDS OF ART | $5,000 |
| RIVERCENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Jordan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TCTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +88%
- BSBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +27%
- CSColumbus State University Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +112%
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +46%
- FTFeeding the Valley Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +251%
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 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.
The Columbus Board of REALTORS is a visible advocate of the real estate industry, providing members with career building education and enhancing the quality of life in our community.
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…
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To support the cobb county chamber of commerce, inc. in accomplishing community development in the cobb county, georgia area.
The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gateways Foundation 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 107 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WESTVILLE ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAYS FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc · The Cms 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 Jordan 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.
- ME2 Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.