Ohio · 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.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $362,823
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,150,028
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Aspyr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $952k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEmploymentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $13M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $10M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $8.7M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $7.6M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $6.5M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $5.7M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $4.2M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $3.3M | 38% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Employment$43MCommunity Improvement$8.1MEducation$7.8MHuman Services$2.2MCrime & Legal$1.4MYouth Development$1.4MHealth$769kScience & Tech$433kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equus Workforce Solutions | $26,278,473 | 6 | n/a |
| Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc | $9,701,193 | 9 | 1% |
| Impact Community Action Inc | $7,587,533 | 9 | 10% |
| Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation | $3,216,391 | 1 | 90% |
| ProTeam Workforce Solutions LLC | $2,211,055 | 4 | n/a |
| I Know I Can | $2,083,584 | 4 | 8% |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio Inc | $2,051,990 | 6 | 1% |
| Academy for Urban Scholars | $1,712,727 | 6 | 9% |
| Schoolinks Inc | $1,215,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alvis Inc | $1,129,352 | 5 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equus Workforce Solutions | $26,278,473 | 6 | n/a |
| Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc | $9,701,193 | 9 | 1% |
| Impact Community Action Inc | $7,587,533 | 9 | 10% |
| Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation | $3,216,391 | 1 | 90% |
| ProTeam Workforce Solutions LLC | $2,211,055 | 4 | n/a |
| I Know I Can | $2,083,584 | 4 | 8% |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio Inc | $2,051,990 | 6 | 1% |
| Academy for Urban Scholars | $1,712,727 | 6 | 9% |
| Schoolinks Inc | $1,215,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alvis Inc | $1,129,352 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Services | $768,692 | 5 | 8% |
| New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Columbus LLC | $734,240 | 2 | n/a |
| YouthBuild Columbus Community School | $731,769 | 3 | 7% |
| Past Foundation | $590,850 | 5 | 8% |
| The Columbus Literacy Council | $571,483 | 5 | 5% |
| OhioGuidestone | $536,912 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbus State Community College | $458,891 | 2 | n/a |
| Lead the Way Learning Academy | $426,603 | 3 | 20% |
| Color Coded Labs Inc | $389,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Columbus Urban League | $321,812 | 2 | 1% |
| Alcohol Drug and Mental Health Board Of | $254,513 | 3 | n/a |
| Goodwill Columbus | $219,988 | 2 | n/a |
| The Chamber Foundation | $167,400 | 2 | 29% |
| The Ohio State University | $160,784 | 1 | n/a |
| National Center for Urban Solutions Tec | $112,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wcbe | $105,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services | $104,765 | 2 | 0% |
| CareSource | $93,790 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc | $91,743 | 1 | 1% |
| Dress for Success Columbus | $75,060 | 2 | 3% |
| Central Ohio Transit Authority | $73,311 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Over US Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Franklinton Rising | $70,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Real WorkForce Solutions LLC | $68,531 | 2 | n/a |
| Riverview International Center Inc | $52,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Bronzeville It Academy LLC | $50,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Associated Builders & Contractors Central Ohio Chapter | $49,852 | 1 | 6% |
| Americas Childcare | $44,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Aarc Enterprises LLC | $38,943 | 1 | n/a |
| Cott Systems Inc | $32,674 | 1 | n/a |
| Groveport Madison Schools | $31,742 | 1 | n/a |
| ZoCo Design LLC | $30,154 | 2 | n/a |
| Franklin University | $28,532 | 1 | 0% |
| Tech Elevator Inc | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunrise Foods Inc | $27,497 | 2 | n/a |
| Fairfield County Commissioners | $27,020 | 1 | n/a |
| Creating Central Ohio Futures | $25,663 | 1 | n/a |
| FST Logistics Inc | $24,373 | 1 | n/a |
| Academia Medical Institute LLC | $22,280 | 1 | n/a |
| Trabian Enterprises | $20,538 | 1 | n/a |
| The Cleary Company | $20,472 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Date Social LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Land-Grant Brewing Company LLC | $19,617 | 1 | n/a |
| Superior Production LLC | $18,003 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilson Empire LLC | $17,371 | 1 | n/a |
| First Choice Home Health Services LLC | $17,030 | 1 | n/a |
| Agility Partners LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zora's House Inc | $14,760 | 1 | 2% |
| Xtreme Clean Janitorial Service LLC | $14,128 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Arlington City School District | $13,824 | 1 | n/a |
| Starting Point Learning Center LLC | $13,768 | 1 | n/a |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $12,322 | 1 | n/a |
| Terrasmart LLC | $10,947 | 1 | n/a |
| Lee Martin Development LLC | $10,733 | 1 | n/a |
| Roadmaster Drivers School of Ohio Inc | $10,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Futurety LLC | $7,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbus Regional Airport Authority | $7,275 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc | $7,227 | 1 | 0% |
| Horizon Educational Services of Columbusinc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| AEP Ohio | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Geben Communications LLC | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Furniture Bank of Central Ohio | $6,125 | 1 | 0% |
| treetree | $6,092 | 1 | n/a |
| AO Smith Water Treatment | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Assist 4 Dentist LLC | $5,995 | 1 | n/a |
| Mad Scientist Associates LLC | $5,838 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Tigers Learning Center 2 | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Computer Helper Publishing Inc | $5,592 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Aspyr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.
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.
United Way of Central Ohio IncOH40.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
About Aspyr
- How much does Aspyr give?
- Aspyr reported 20 grants totaling $13,395,336 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Aspyr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (66%), Community Improvement (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Aspyr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Equus Workforce Solutions ($26M), Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc ($9.7M), Impact Community Action Inc ($7.6M).
- Does Aspyr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aspyr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Ohio Inc, Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation.
- Where is Aspyr based?
- Aspyr is based in OH.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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