· Private foundation
Thornton Jordan Family Foundation Inc
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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TREES COLUMBUS | $1,000 |
| MOBILITY WORLDWIDE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBOR WORKS | $1,000 |
| MUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of those 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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HCHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +449%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +23%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- HOHouse of Heroes Chattahoocheeone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -18%
- NANEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +167%
- RARLA ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
The columbus museum brings american art and history to life for the communities of the chattahoochee valley.
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
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.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
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…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Columbus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds House of Heroes Chattahoochee ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE-PORTERDALE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WESTVILLE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Housing Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND 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 · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Cliboca 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 Thornton Jordan 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.