· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 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 RIGHT FROM THE START ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ABEL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Epiphany Space 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Woodruff Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woodruff Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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