· Private foundation
The Shelby and Wanda Amos Foundation
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 $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| DANCING STARS ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC | $17,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY | $1,000 |
| HUGHSTON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +10%
- CAColumbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour7× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +34%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TSTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +84%
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
Children's services
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
Inspiring life journeys
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 96 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE LIKE LEXI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER MARATHON INC ↗
- Who funds CATAULA VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Swift Illges Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · The Loudermilk Family Christian Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shelby and Wanda Amos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shelby and Wanda Amos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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