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COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC

COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,091 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($104,113). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$239k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$158k
Net assets
$1.0M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Columbus High School Alumni Association Inc does

Mission

Promote loyalty, interest,support and knowledge of columbushigh school, its students and its projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote loyalty, interest, support and knowledge of Columbus High School, its students and its projects.

    $8,750 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,750.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($681k)2018 Revenue 39 ($36k) Expenses 127 ($37k) Net assets 92 ($626k)2019 Revenue 154 ($145k) Expenses 126 ($37k) Net assets 108 ($734k)2020 Revenue 60 ($56k) Expenses 152 ($45k) Net assets 109 ($746k)2021 Revenue 72 ($68k) Expenses 57 ($17k) Net assets 117 ($797k)2022 Revenue 18 ($17k) Expenses 103 ($30k) Net assets 115 ($783k)2023 Revenue 22 ($21k) Expenses 191 ($56k) Net assets 110 ($748k)2024 Revenue 176 ($165k) Expenses 386 ($113k) Net assets 117 ($800k)2025 Revenue 255 ($239k) Expenses 47 ($14k) Net assets 150 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (255)Expenses (47)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $800k to $1.0M (+28%).

$681k
$626k
$734k
$746k
$797k
$783k
$748k
$800k
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
−$1k
’18
$108k
’19
$12k
’20
$51k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$35k
’23
$51k
’24
$225k
’25
3.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed333122222
Joined·+0+1······
No longer listed·01······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $0.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

97% of COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.

GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin94% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,091 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($104,113). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $158,091 in grants to COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $104,113 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing