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COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC

COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,714,378 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($585,338). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$823k
Revenue FY2025
25
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
21/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Against its field

COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($860k) Expenses 100 ($828k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 90 ($776k) Expenses 84 ($692k) Net assets 105 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 95 ($819k) Expenses 69 ($575k) Net assets 127 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 103 ($882k) Expenses 84 ($692k) Net assets 116 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 125 ($1.1M) Expenses 93 ($766k) Net assets 130 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 88 ($754k) Expenses 93 ($769k) Net assets 141 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 96 ($823k) Expenses 105 ($870k) Net assets 149 ($4.7M)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (96)Expenses (105)Net assets (149)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 25% · 2023 8% · 2024 10% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
18
$84k
20
$244k
21
$190k
22
$305k
23
$15k
24
$47k
25
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $215k → $406k.

4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 PHILHARMONIC GUILD 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 PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC.

34%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 46% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 40% · 2022 49% · 2023 42%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.

How long its funders stay

70% of COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 84% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

57% of COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

IL
OH
RI
MO
NC
GA

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.

Federal$48k
grants $48kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$48k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC?
COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,714,378 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($585,338). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,714,378 in grants to COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $585,338 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing