· Public charity
Aspyr
To partner with area businesses and organizations on workforce needs so that people are fully employed at their ability and potential in the thriving central ohio economy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of ASPYR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $722k
- $250k+11 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | $6,150,028 |
| IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION | $1,446,822 |
| ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $895,627 |
| GOODWILL COLUMBUS | $816,044 |
| THE ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOLARS | $685,786 |
| I KNOW I CAN | $545,570 |
| SCHOOLINKS INC | $522,500 |
| ALVIS INC | $473,195 |
| YOUTHBUILD COLUMBUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $456,047 |
| COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $362,823 |
| UPRYS LLC | $291,582 |
| PAST FOUNDATION | $169,481 |
| NCUS TEC | $112,000 |
| COLOR CODED LABS INC | $100,000 |
| ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES | $98,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k 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
- ICIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +274%
- IKI KNOW I CAN4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +6%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- COCentral Ohio Workforce Investment Corporationone grant, 2017 · $3.2M · 90% of their budget
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $161k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INCone grant, 2018 · $92k · revenue -1%
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.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
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.
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
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…
The community education coalition (cec) is a partnership of education, business, and community stakeholders focused on aligning and integrating our community learning system, economic development, and quality of life.
Inspiring life journeys
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
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 strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.
Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Past Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 78 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 ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation ↗
- Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YouthBuild Columbus Community School ↗
- Who funds PAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR URBAN SOLUTIONS TEC ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CareSource ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OVER US INC ↗
- Who funds Franklinton Rising ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER ↗
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: United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · The Reinberger Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return
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 Aspyr 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.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% 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.