Georgia · Nonprofit
THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,302,239 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL P AMOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,760,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $67M
What The Columbus Museum Inc does
Mission
The columbus museum brings american art and history to life for the communities of the chattahoochee valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The museum exhibits american art and regional history, conducts workshops, lectures, and receptions. The museum provides opportunities for art education for the local school system, and generally contributes to the exposure and education of the citizens to american art and regional history. Admission is free and the potential two state audience for the museum is in excess of 200,000 people. During the 2023-2024 fiscal year the museum served 17,368 people through educational programs and events including 52 classes, 40 guided tours, 5 public festivals and lectures, 7 summer camps, and 24 hands-on art making activities. The museum also partnered with 18 community organizations and 42 schools to offer offsite programming at their locations.
$4,231,102 spent$141,559 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,231,102.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $39M to $53M (+36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Marianne Richter
Executive director/recordi
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $304k → $1.7M.
6 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 65% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% — 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
57% of THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Muscogee School District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC?
- THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,302,239 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL P AMOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,760,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $11,302,239 in grants to THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC?
- THE DANIEL P AMOS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM 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 52 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