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All Life Foundation

The mission of All Life Foundation is to support the Columbus Zoological Association, Recreation Unlimited Foundation, and Ohio Health Foundation, Inc.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$4.9MRecreation & Sports$2.2MHealth$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.4MArts & Culture$505kHuman Services$195kReligion$82kEducation$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Columbus Zoo$500,000
Recreation Unlimited$350,000
OhioHealth Foundation$270,000
Mid Ohio Food Collective$260,000
Ohio Wildlife Center$125,000
Honor Flight$105,000
Columbus Humane Society$105,000
Bottoms Up Diaper Bank$50,000
Humane Society of Delaware County$50,000
NNEMAP$36,000
MS Center of Southwest Florida$27,067
Worthington Presbyterian Church$10,000
St Jude's Children Hospital$10,000
Life's Kitchen$10,000
St Paul's Church Outreach Program$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Embrace Grace: $3k → 11%Harry Chapin Food Bank: $20k → 15%Bottoms Up Diaper Bank: $65k → 9%Recreation Unlimited Foundation: $385k → 11%Astegos: $5k → 8%Holt International Children's Services: $5k → 15%Bottoms Up Diaper Bank: $65k → 9%Recreation Unlimited Foundation: $385k → 11%World Food Program USA: $5k → 14%Bottoms Up Diaper Bank: $50k → 9%Recreation Unlimited: $385k → 11%UN World Food Program: $5k → 14%Recreation Unlimited Foundation: $363k → 11%Recreation Unlimited Foundation: $350k → 11%NNEMAP: $36k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
NY
OR
NV
OH
NJ
VA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 27 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$11M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

74%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CZ
    COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +32%
  • RU
    RECREATION UNLIMITED FARM & FUN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +347% · 88% of their budget
  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -4%
  • RT
    REAL TALK YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • AS
    ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
3
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
5
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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6
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
7
Hospice of Central Ohio

Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…

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8
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
9
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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11
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
12
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $4,000,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATIONOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $399,000 · AnimalsOHIO WILDLIFE CENTERCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $220,495 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $192,338 · Animals+3 more: $82,500 · AnimalsOHIOHEALTH CORPORATION: $1,607,525 · OtherOHIOHEALTH CORPORATIONMid-Ohio Foodbank: $1,225,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank+21 more: $272,000 · Other+21 moreRECREATION UNLIMITED FARM & FUN: $1,868,000 · Human ServicesRECREATION UNLIMITED …BOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRIVE: $180,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRI…+6 more: $86,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC: $504,766 · Arts & CultureRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $189,456 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 · HealthHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,500 · HealthOHIO COUNCIL FOR COGNITIVE HEALTH: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $30,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$4,894,333Other$3,104,525Human Services$2,134,000Arts & Culture$504,766Recreation & Sports$360,000Health$245,456Food & Nutrition$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $4,000,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetRECREATION UNLIMITED FARM & FUN: $1,868,000 over 5y, 88% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $1,225,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC: $504,766 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $399,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $220,495 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $192,338 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $189,456 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetBOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRIVE: $180,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $57,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNNEMAP INC: $36,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFES KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKEYE BULLDOG RESCUE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREAL TALK YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO COUNCIL FOR COGNITIVE HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE P SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBISHOPRIC OF PUBLIC ECUMENICAL & SOCIAL SERVICES USA INC T/A BLESS USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUALLY ABUSED CHILDREN'S RELIEF ENDEAVOR (SACRED): $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASTEGOS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITYLINK CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmbrace Grace Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCURE TAY-SACHS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Cardinal Health Found…Delaware County Found…Margaret and Robert W…The Foundation of the…United Way of Central…American Electric Pow…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Safelite FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…The Kroger Co Foundat…
Columbus FoundationOH30.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Delaware County Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Safelite Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · The Kroger Co Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization All Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from All Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to All Life Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to All Life Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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