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CareSource Ohio Inc

CareSource Ohio, Inc.'s mission is to make a lasting difference in our members' lives by improving their health and well-being.

$2.5M
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$674k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Housing & Shelter$18MHealth$15MHuman Services$3.4MFood & Nutrition$3.0MEducation$749kYouth Development$320kEmployment$250kRecreation & Sports$168kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$84,240
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hocking Athens Perry Community Action (HAPCAP)$673,920
Cleveland Metropolitan School District$336,960
Athens-Meigs Educational Service Center$210,600
Harm Reduction Ohio$168,480
Ohio State Parks Foundation$168,480
Case Western Reserve University$168,480
National African American Male Wellness Agency$105,300
Moses-Weitzman Health System Inc$105,300
Asian Services in Action Inc$105,300
Birthing Beautiful Communities$98,982
NyNi Inc$84,240
Star House$63,180
Passion Works$42,120
Southeast Ohio Free Pharmacy DBA Rising Sun$40,014
Last Mile Food Rescue$36,631
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Moses-Weitzman Health System Inc: $105k → 7%Asian Services in Action Inc: $105k → 13%El Centro de Servicios Sociales Inc: $200k → 13%Dress Right Dress Inc: $25k → 14%Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging Foundation: $1.0M → 15%Connect Our Kids: $250k → 4%Fostering Further: $10k → 10%Project Ujima Inc: $205k → 13%Shoes 4 The Shoeless Inc: $100k → 14%Homefull: $500k → 14%Girls Health Period: $350k → 16%FutureReady Columbus: $50k → 15%Ohio Optometric Foundation: $125k → 15%Homeless Hookup: $69k → 17%Ohio Newsboys Association Inc: $10k → 15%Women Just Like Me: $16k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 43% of CareSource Ohio Inc’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, 94% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CareSource Ohio Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 6 repeat orgs$38M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +169% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
60

Total granted

$2.8M
$37M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+169%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WO
    WESTCARE OHIO INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $410k · revenue +334%
  • BB
    BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $349k · revenue +194%
  • HR
    HARM REDUCTION OHIO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $268k · revenue +46% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14M · revenue +406%
  • OR
    ONEFIFTEEN RECOVERY
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -58% · 56% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.3M · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

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2
The Healthcare Connection Inc

To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.

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3
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

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

Health
4
Ohio Professionals Health Program

To facilitate the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals in order to enhance patient care and safety.

Health
5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
8
Healthpath Foundation of Ohio

Helping all ohioans to reach their fullest health potential.

Health
9
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
10
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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11
The Ohio State Health Network

Oshn supports its members' goal to remain strong, independent healthcare organizations by delivering value through cost savings, shared learning, and quality services.

Health
12
Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services Inc

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of northeast ohio residents by providing comprehensive and excellent health care services in a sensitive and caring environment.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Project Milk Mission. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare Systems and Prov…Professional Associations a…Disability Employment Servi…Recovery Housing and Suppor…Food Access & DistributionRegional Economic Developme…Private FoundationsCleveland Community Foundat…Faith-Based Social ServicesImmigrant & Refugee ServicesArts and Cultural Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%24%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%14%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr16%52%35–55yr20%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
13%
4,059/31,982

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.

05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 85 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON — $13,833,684 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTONHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION — $1,373,920 · OtherHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTIONOHIO ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PLANS INC — $1,362,240 · OtherOHIO ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PLANS INC+29 more — $3,208,586 · Other+29 moreONEFIFTEEN RECOVERY — $2,496,603 · HealthONEFIFTEEN RECOVERYCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $2,300,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENT…DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $2,000,000 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $800,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENT…FIVE RIVERS HEALTH CENTERS — $500,000 · HealthB RILEY SOBER HOUSE — $441,585 · HealthWESTCARE OHIO INC — $410,000 · Health+12 more — $1,828,447 · Health+12 moreCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $1,500,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $1,250,000 · Housing & ShelterINVICTUS DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterOHIO DISTRICT 5 AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesHOMEFULL — $500,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS HEALTH PERIOD — $350,000 · Human ServicesCONNECT OUR KIDS — $250,000 · Human ServicesProject Ujima Inc — $205,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesOHIO OPTOMETRIC FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $105,300 · Human ServicesMOSES-WEITZMAN HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $105,300 · Human Services+7 more — $280,200 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $400,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOODBANK INC — $371,675 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $320,272 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT MILK MISSION — $56,430 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $36,631 · Food & NutritionBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES — $348,982 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR URBAN SOLUTIONS TEC — $250,000 · EducationOHIO CHAPTER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $250,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE — $200,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $168,480 · EducationWright State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationPREMIER HEALTH PARTNERS — $518,100 · Religion
Other$19,778,430Health$11,776,635Housing & Shelter$3,150,000Human Services$3,120,800Food & Nutrition$1,385,008Education$1,277,462Religion$518,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetONEFIFTEEN RECOVERY — $2,496,603 over 1y, 56% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $2,300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION — $1,373,920 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOHIO ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PLANS INC — $1,362,240 over 1y, 97% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $800,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREMIER HEALTH PARTNERS — $518,100 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOMEFULL — $500,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFIVE RIVERS HEALTH CENTERS — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetB RILEY SOBER HOUSE — $441,585 over 1y, 31% of budgetWESTCARE OHIO INC — $410,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $400,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER — $380,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $371,675 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS HEALTH PERIOD — $350,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES — $348,982 over 2y, 12% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $333,333 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $320,272 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND VA MEDICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC — $300,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHARM REDUCTION OHIO — $268,480 over 2y, 51% of budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS — $250,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOHIO CHAPTER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $250,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLA SOUPE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGREATER DAYTON AREA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS NOW — $180,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOhio State Parks Foundation — $168,480 over 1y, 21% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $168,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OHIO INC — $150,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOHIO OPTOMETRIC FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN — $105,300 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $105,300 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOSES-WEITZMAN HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $105,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHOES 4 THE SHOELESS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOhio Access to Justice Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS HOOKUP — $69,200 over 1y, 30% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $63,180 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT MILK MISSION — $56,430 over 1y, 48% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO — $55,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFUTURE READY FIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationThe CareSource Founda…The Dayton FoundationDayton Foundation Dep…Mathile Family Founda…United Way of Central…Miami Valley HospitalMt Sinai Health Care …The Cleveland Foundat…Park National Corpora…The United Way of the…Dayton Foundation Plu…
Columbus FoundationOH34.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Mathile Family Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Miami Valley Hospital · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc

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 CareSource Ohio Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Moses-Weitzman Health System Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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