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The Jordan Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Jordan Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$464k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$832kArts & Culture$796kPhilanthropy$772kReligion$456kEnvironment$269kHealth$137kHousing & Shelter$105kRecreation & Sports$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $287k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%FERST READERS INC: $360 → 11%FAITH: $3k → 6%FERST READERS INC: $360 → 11%FAITH: $2k → 6%FAITH: $1k → 6%FAITH: $1k → 6%FAITH: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Jordan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 82%.

The Jordan Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 62 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
41

Total granted

$2.9M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +88%
  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +27%
  • CS
    Columbus State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • BS
    BAYLOR SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +112%
  • FT
    Feeding the Valley Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +251%
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
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Columbus Board of Realtors Inc

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.

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3
1909 Preservation Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
The Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Community Foundation of W Georgia

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.

Philanthropy
7
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association

To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area

Arts & Culture
8
Carolinas Golf Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
10
Cobb County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

To support the cobb county chamber of commerce, inc. in accomplishing community development in the cobb county, georgia area.

Community Improvement
11
Cobb Collaborative Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 107 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $388,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - BO BARTLETT CENTER: $305,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - BO BARTLETT CENTERUNITED WAY: $147,600 · OtherUNITED WAYMERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE COLUMBUS CAMPUS: $125,000 · OtherMERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE COLUMBUS CAMPUSSALVATION ARMY: $69,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY: $66,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INCARNATION: $64,000 · OtherPIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $62,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - FIRST CHOICE CAMPAIGN: $60,000 · Other+63 more: $477,370 · Other+63 moreTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $394,100 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS MUSEU…NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INFANTRY …RIVERCENTER INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERCENTER INCHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $52,600 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC LINWOOD F…HISTORIC WESTVILLE: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $23,800 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $517,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUND…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $252,550 · Environment+2 more: $1,100 · EnvironmentBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $78,700 · EducationColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $66,250 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $60,750 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: $40,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $11,000 · Health+4 more: $9,000 · HealthTRUTH SPRING INC: $99,500 · Community ImprovementUPTOWN COLUMBUS INC: $16,666 · Community ImprovementTHE GATEWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementTrees Columbus Inc: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,763,970Arts & Culture$615,500Philanthropy$522,000Environment$253,650Education$246,450Health$160,750Community Improvement$139,666

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $517,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $394,100 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $252,550 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetTRUTH SPRING INC: $99,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $78,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $66,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $60,750 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC: $56,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $52,600 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $46,100 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $37,950 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC WESTVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUPTOWN COLUMBUS INC: $16,666 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: $12,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GATEWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrees Columbus Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPAWS Humane Inc: $8,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHaskins Foundation Inc: $6,350 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSEALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUGA Tee Off Club Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetRIGHT FROM THE START: $5,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAMARC DREAM AND ACHIEVE FDN INC: $2,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYNN HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetME2 ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLYMEDISEASEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …Lockwood Partners Fou…Bradley-Turner Founda…Mildred Miller Fort F…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Georgia Power Foundat…Jackson-Burgin Founda…John P and Dorothy S …Richard and Helen Rob…George and Ann Swift …The Cms Foundation IncThe Daniel P Amos Fam…
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA81.2× affinity38 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 · 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

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 Jordan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jordan 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 107 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home