· Public charity
Action for Children
To transform the lives of children by supporting, empowering, and advocating for the adults who make the biggest impact on children's lives-their parents, caregivers and teachers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $300,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,044,556 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,744,556 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE MIRACLES EDC | $15,000 |
| PATHWAY II DESTINY CHILDCARE | $15,000 |
| NCBC HUMAN SERVICES CORP | $15,000 |
| DRIVING PARK EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| G TYREE LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| TENDER YEARS LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| FUTURE SCHOLARS LEARNING ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| CDCFC NORTH LINDEN EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| FULBRIGHT LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| STARTING POINT LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW CHILDCARE INC | $10,000 |
| ALICE D JEFFERSON | $10,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH YMCA | $10,000 |
| COOKIE'S CHILDCARE | $10,000 |
| CREATIVE KIDS CHILD CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO3× · 2023–2025 · $237k · revenue +9%
- MAMOMMY AND ME CHILDCARE AND ENRICHMENT CENTER LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $85k
- NBNICOLE BROWN2× · 2024–2025 · $56k
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $274k · revenue 0%
- JWJAMIE WADEone grant, 2024 · $63k
- LPLA PETITE ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $42k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.
The organization operates and provides quality childcare in a nurturing and learning environment in multiple locations.
Childcare
Child care
The education of young people in the preschool through twelfth grade in a christian centered learning facility.
To provide a child centered educational program at a reasonable tuition that will honor god in a high quality christian based environment benefiting both our children and families.
To provide preschool services to children ages 2 and older.
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Ccdc's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from infancy through their preschool years.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Montessori Education Center and the most unlike its peers is Gan Ephraim Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 288 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Early Care and Learning Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Hillsborough County School Readiness Coalition Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Action for Children 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.
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.