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Cardinal Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
210
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$10MHuman Services$3.3MEducation$3.0MEmployment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$616kCommunity Improvement$477kOther$0
02FY2025 · 210 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k136 grants · $468k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $501k
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$3,500
Median grant
25
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOURCAUSE LLC$301,118
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$262,500
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$250,000
CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK$250,000
SUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM$250,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC$202,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$175,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$150,000
PELOTONIA$150,000
WIZEHIVE INC$131,250
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER$111,000
YOURCAUSE LLC$103,350
YOURCAUSE LLC$101,872
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO$100,000
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD$100,000
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 (FY21–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $100k → 10%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $4k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $25k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $4k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%OPEN TABLE INC: $10k → 9%CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY: $4k → 5%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $4k → 14%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $4k → 8%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $25k → 10%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $4k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $5k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 9%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%ARAB AMERICANS OF CLEVELAND: $4k → 17%OPEN TABLE INC: $15k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 9%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY: $4k → 5%ARAB AMERICANS OF CLEVELAND: $4k → 17%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - COLUMBUS OH: $4k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY: $4k → 5%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $5k → 16%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 15%CELEBRATE LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 17%CELEBRATE LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 17%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $4k → 5%UPPER ARLINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $4k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $75k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $74k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $50k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $40k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%LSS CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%WELCOME WAREHOUSE INC: $5k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 261 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

261 repeat relationships: 126 still active in FY2025, 135 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

261
80

Total granted

$21M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+10%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $584k · revenue +23%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $378k · revenue +33%
  • P
    PELOTONIA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $304k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +43%
  • MO
    MID OHIO REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

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,…

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3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
8
Access Healthcolumbus Dba Health Impact Ohio

To improve the quality, delivery, and value of healthcare and the overall health for all people in the columbus region

Health
9
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

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10
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health
11
Columbus Medical Association Foundation Unlimited

To provide health and wellness services without geographic restriction.

International
12
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Xr Safety Initiative. 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

287 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. 287 of the 378 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
284/287
Grantees still filing
174/287
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOURCAUSE LLC: $3,244,873 · OtherYOURCAUSE LLCNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,287,400 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC: $1,020,230 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INCEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $598,940 · Other+97 more: $6,743,641 · Other+97 moreOHIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $625,000 · HealthOHIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK INC: $505,000 · HealthCHARITABLE HEALTHCARE N…American Heart Association Inc: $378,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…SUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM: $250,000 · Health+40 more: $3,240,568 · Health+40 moreUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $750,930 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $520,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $284,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc: $163,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $206,000 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $89,000 · Human Services+14 more: $409,300 · Human ServicesFeeding America: $150,000 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $149,674 · Food & NutritionMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $147,336 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $125,000 · Food & NutritionBANCO DE ALIMENTOS PUERTO RICO INC: $125,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $100,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $100,000 · Food & NutritionDUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $49,000 · Food & NutritionLOCAL MATTERS: $46,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $31,500 · Food & NutritionOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $583,810 · EducationPELOTONIA: $303,500 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+9 more: $158,308 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INC: $150,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $52,701 · Community Improvement
Other$12,895,084Health$4,998,568Philanthropy$1,753,430Human Services$1,629,300Food & Nutrition$1,173,510Education$1,145,618Community Improvement$702,701

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $750,930 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $625,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $598,940 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $583,810 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $520,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK INC: $505,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $415,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $378,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $303,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $300,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $284,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $280,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS: $280,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $206,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetI KNOW I CAN: $167,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc: $163,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFeeding America: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJessie Trice Community Health System Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $149,674 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $148,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $147,336 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE: $130,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBANCO DE ALIMENTOS PUERTO RICO INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $114,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 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.

United Way of Central Ohio IncOH124.2× affinity69 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 · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · American Electric Power Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Columbus Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
  • National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Variety Children's Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Cardinal Health 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 378 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-PF 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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