· Private foundation
The Woodruff Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY | $55,250 |
| COLUMBUS HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| ST LUKE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| GREATER LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH | $29,656 |
| MERCY MED OF COLUMBUS | $29,313 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $23,500 |
| WILD AT HEART | $21,500 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| NATIONAL INFANTRY FOUNDATION | $9,656 |
| UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,500 |
| STORYBOOK FARM | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- MOMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN5× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +231%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +32%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- EPEMANUEL PREP SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCEone grant, 2020 · $19k
- MMMERCER MEDICINE HARRIS COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MTMID TREE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
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.
Through education and advocacy, midtown inc initiates, supports, and sustains economic and neighborhood revitalization in the six square mile area of columbus, georgia, known as midtown
The columbus youth foundation supports recreational programs for underprivileged youth in columbus.
The organization's mission is to build lives, families and communities one career at a time by helping people develop their god-given gifts through education, work and career development services. goodwill strives to end poverty one new…
Inspiring life journeys
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Entrusted with the responsibility to improve the community's quality of life, the columbus foundation embraces the following: to assist donors and others in strengthening and improving the community for the benefit of all its residents.
We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…
Child day care center serving the greater columbus, ga community as an integral part of the outreach mission of fourth street baptist church.
Our mission is to encourage giving, inspire action, and improve lives in south georgia through local funds created by individuals, families, businesses, and non-profits in south georgia.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Ark Rescue. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds MICAH'S PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ARK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds RIGHT FROM THE START ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Epiphany Space Inc ↗
- Who funds ABEL MINISTRIES 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Swift Illges Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc
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 Woodruff Family 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.
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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