· Private foundation
Ads Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-DULUTH | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL OHIO | $40,000 |
| FLORIDA DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $15,000 |
| KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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
- TCTHE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION (RAPID 5)2× · 2021–2023 · $300k
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NEW ALBANY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue -72% · 89% of their budget
- TRTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- NCNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HCHENRY COUNTY AG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -41%
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry County Ag Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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
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.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NEW ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY AG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ads Foundation 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.