· 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $1,000 |
| ANN ELIZABETH SHEPHERD HOME | $1,000 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RIVERDALE PORTERDALE CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND | $1,000 |
| MOBILITY WORLDWIDE | $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 (FY17–21, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 -30%
- NANEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +167%
- RARLA ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 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 NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY 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 COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Housing Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thornton Jordan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thornton Jordan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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