· Private foundation
Barbasol 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ashland County Community Foundation | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| Treasure House | $25,000 |
| Wellity Education | $15,000 |
| Seeds of Caring | $14,300 |
| American Vets Appr Events | $6,000 |
| Cristo Rey Columbus HS Work Study | $6,000 |
| Homeport | $6,000 |
| Contemporary Theater of Ohio | $6,000 |
| Columbus Speech and Hearing | $5,000 |
| Foundations Community Childcare Inc | $5,000 |
| Local Matters | $5,000 |
| Friends of CASA of Franklin Co | $5,000 |
| Ashland Bike Project | $5,000 |
| Family Mentor Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Barbasol Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 13 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- THTREASURE HOUSE4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +36%
- AKA KID AGAIN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +25%
- SOSEEDS OF CARING4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +132%
Funded once
Best Buddies International Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +17%- THTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -16%
- FFEMERGYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Feed The Kids Columbus strives to ensure food insecure children in Central Ohio have access to nutritious meals and snacks so they are able to learn and grow. There are as many as 12 million children in the United States who are at risk of…
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
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…
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
See schedule o.children's hunger alliance is a statewide nonprofit organization founded in 1970 that is dedicated to overcoming food insecurity by ensuring that every child in ohio, regardless of circumstances, has consistent access to…
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
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…
Childkind's mission is to empower families caring for children involved with the child welfare system, specializing in those with special health care and developmental needs. whether it be a child with a complex medical or developmental…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Caring and the most unlike its peers is Angela Stanford 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 20 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 60 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 ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREASURE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Wellity Education ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF CARING ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MATTERS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND BIKE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Student Success Stores ↗
- Who funds FEMERGY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES ↗
- Who funds ANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Better Way Ministries ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · L Brands Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Barbasol 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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