How much did United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc grant in FY2025?

Youth Development$9.4MHuman Services$6.4MEmployment$5.2MHealth$4.0MFood & Nutrition$3.3MReligion$1.2MCrime & Legal$881kPublic Safety & Disaster$218kEducation$90kOther$12M

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k6 grants · $141k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.9M
$250k+5 grants · $2.2M

$140,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY	$607,000
EASTER SEALS OF WEST GEORGIA INC	$565,000
FEEDING THE VALLEY INC	$385,000
GIRLS INC OF COLUMBUS AND PHENIX CITYRUSSELL CO	$377,500
HOPE HARBOUR (COLUMBUS ALLIANCE FOR BATTERED WOMEN)	$272,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN COLUMBUS	$243,000
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS	$220,000
HOUSE OF TIME INC	$210,000
SAFEHOUSE MINISTRIES	$170,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$162,000
TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC	$157,200
OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC	$141,300
SALVATION ARMY	$140,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA	$136,000
RUSSELL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC	$88,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$42M · 28 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$42M

$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+94%

Still filing today

89%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationEmploymentFood & NutritionOther

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

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EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +62%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +32%
FT
Feeding the Valley Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +836%

Funded once

CC
COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +52% · 45% of their budget
SK
SAFE KIDS OF GEORGIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +115%
ES
ENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAMINCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +94%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter

Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services

The Women's Clinic of Columbus

Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.

Health

Creative Community Services Inc

Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…

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Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.

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Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights

Communities in Schools of Central Georgia Inc

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life. Our goal is to support youth, improve graduation rates, academic acheivement and job and post-secondary school…

Education

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…

Civil Rights

Central Georgia Casa Inc

Central georgia casa provides high quality volunteer advocacy to child victims of abuse and neglect who have been adjudicated dependent by the juvenile court and placed in foster care. providing this high-quality volunteer advocacy…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pastoral Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban League of Greater Columbus 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 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

21%

220/1,025

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

27/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$12,729,926Youth Development$9,440,449Human Services$6,378,213Employment$5,190,000Health$3,952,132Food & Nutrition$3,310,000Religion$1,159,682

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA58.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Jordan Foundation Inc · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Lipham 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 United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines