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Borror Family Foundation

Community involvement starts at the top at dominion.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$560kHealth$165kCommunity Improvement$77kArts & Culture$42kCivil Rights$40kHuman Services$37kPhilanthropy$10kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $17,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$658k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $38k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 15%SANCTUARY COLLECTIVE: $10k → 15%SANCTUARY COLLECTIVE DBA SANCTUARY NIGHT: $20k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $1k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$344k · 8 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$344k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+57%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BF
    BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +20%
  • SN
    SHORT NORTH ALLIANCE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $66k · revenue +164%
  • JA
    JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS
    3× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • SN
    SHORT NORTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • DD
    DORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -55%
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
Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra
Arts & Culture
2
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
3
Akron Soul Train

Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…

Arts & Culture
4
Wild Goose Creative Inc

Wild goose creative's mission is to build a creative community at the intersection of art, risk an meaning. wild goose is about a lot of things: sustainable partnerships and artistic collaborations.it's about giving artists resources and…

Arts & Culture
5
Central Community House

Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…

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6
Ohio Partners for Transformation
Religion
7
The Opera Association of Central Ohio

Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…

Arts & Culture
8
Shadoart Productions Inc

We use the power of live performance art to create a unified expression of joy that is shared within our community through engaged educational programming, enhanced corporate partnerships, and inspired civic givebacks. see schedule o for…

Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture
10
Summit Artspace

Summit artspace connects artists and artist-serving organizations to the community and to the resources they need to thrive professionally, creatively, and financially. its core values of creativity, collaboration, and community guide the…

Arts & Culture
11
Columbus Cares for Cats
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12
University Circle Incorporated

University circle is one of the most extraordinary cultural districts in the world. within one square mile, it is home to world-class arts, educational, and medical institutions and public spaces that welcome millions of residents,…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Social Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Birdies for Buddies. 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $573,200 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOHIOHEALTH CORPORATION: $80,000 · OtherOHIOHEALTH CORP…STONEWALL COLUMBUS INC: $40,000 · OtherSTONEWALL COLUM…SHORT NORTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $7,000 · OtherBIRDIES FOR BUDDIES: $80,000 · HealthBIRDIES F…SHORT NORTH ALLIANCE: $66,205 · Community ImprovementPartners Achieving Community Transformation Inc: $2,500 · Community ImprovementJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $33,470 · Arts & CultureDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSANCTUARY COLLECTIVE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesChabad of Columbus Inc: $7,500 · ReligionHighland Youth Garden Inc: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$583,200Other$132,000Health$80,000Community Improvement$68,705Arts & Culture$39,470Human Services$38,000Religion$7,500Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $573,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIRDIES FOR BUDDIES: $80,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetSHORT NORTH ALLIANCE: $66,205 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTONEWALL COLUMBUS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $33,470 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSANCTUARY COLLECTIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartners Achieving Community Transformation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $1,000 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 FoundationUnited Way of Central…Ingram-White Castle F…Harry C Moores Founda…American Electric Pow…L Brands FoundationCardinal Health Found…Encova Foundation of …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Nisource Charitable F…Meuse Family Foundati…Greater Columbus Arts…
Columbus FoundationOH31× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation · Greater Columbus Arts Council

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 Borror Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Borror Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Borror Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Borror Family 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 20 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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