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UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC

UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,287 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($370,557). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$820k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$974k
Net assets
$710k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Uptown Columbus Inc does

Mission

Downtown revitalization

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide the services, programs and facilities necessary to aid the rehabilatation and revitalization of the central business district of columbus ga

    $763,742 spent$819,692 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $763,742.

02The 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 ($809k) Expenses 100 ($957k) Net assets 100 ($938k)2019 Revenue 86 ($694k) Expenses 65 ($620k) Net assets 99 ($924k)2020 Revenue 53 ($428k) Expenses 49 ($471k) Net assets 94 ($882k)2021 Revenue 42 ($336k) Expenses 41 ($395k) Net assets 88 ($823k)2022 Revenue 145 ($1.2M) Expenses 70 ($667k) Net assets 142 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 138 ($1.1M) Expenses 123 ($1.2M) Net assets 134 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 125 ($1.0M) Expenses 143 ($1.4M) Net assets 96 ($901k)2025 Revenue 101 ($820k) Expenses 106 ($1.0M) Net assets 76 ($710k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (106)Net assets (76)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $1.3M (−31%).

$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.3M
$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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$148k
’18
$74k
’19
−$43k
’20
−$59k
’21
$505k
’22
−$68k
’23
−$358k
’24
−$192k
’25
6.7
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.

Chief executive

Stephen Morse

CEO

Board chair

Wes Kelley

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed292622221727
Joined·+1+0+0+0+14
No longer listed·44054
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $163k → $285k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 UPTOWN COLUMBUS 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

UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

38% 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 UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC.

38%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 86% · 2019 80% · 2020 62% · 2021 40% · 2022 22% · 2023 48% — 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

75% of UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

100% of UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

AL
GA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC?
UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,287 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($370,557). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $974,287 in grants to UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UPTOWN COLUMBUS INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $370,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UPTOWN COLUMBUS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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