· Private foundation
American Electric Power Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k317 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k298 grants · $6.1M
- $50k–250k127 grants · $11M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFETY BLITZ FOUNDATION INC | $1,428,570 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CO | $400,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC | $360,684 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO | $333,334 |
| CHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC | $273,450 |
| COLUMBUS 2020 FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO | $250,000 |
| TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| I KNOW I CAN | $200,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOODBANK | $200,000 |
| COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE | $200,000 |
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $12.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
634 repeat relationships — 383 still active in FY2025, 251 since wound down; 268 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +6%
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +36%
- SBSAFETY BLITZ FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CSCOLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- MEMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -72%
- UWUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $487k
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.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
We focus on three primary needs in our community: investing in children and youth, promoting health and independence, and helping families in crisis.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caddo Biocontrol Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1089 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. 1089 of the 1,452 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.
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds SAFETY BLITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds ONE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
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: L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Edward M Wilson 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 American Electric Power 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% 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.