· Public charity
Central Ohio Community Improvement
To stabilize or increase property values in areas of Franklin County suffering from the effects of blighted, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed or economically-stranded properties and to promote and facilitate rehabilitation, reutilization and return to productive status.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $67,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $199,493 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $132,118 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homes on the Hill | $37,375 |
| Homeport Voice & Vision | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +84%
- HOHomes on The Hill Community Development Corp6× · 2019–2024 · $639k · revenue +31% · 37% of their budget
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE3× · 2019–2021 · $418k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OCOHIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue +85%
- PAPARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $231k · revenue -81% · 71% of their budget
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbankone grant, 2020 · $123k · revenue +5%
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Facilitate and invest in developments designed to: create and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods; support working households, seniors and special needs populations.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
To stabilize or increase property values in areas of Franklin County suffering from the effects of blighted, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed or economically-stranded properties and to promote and facilitate rehabilitation, reutilization…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To support permanent affordabe housing in Franklin County by providing single residential, multi-family and multi-use properties to be held as community assets in perpetuity.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Occd's purpose is to develop, implement and improve federal, state and local programs for community development and to develop and improve the professional standards and practices of all phases of public administration which are related…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Community Development Finance Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Starfish Alliance Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds Homes on The Hill Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds OHIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds PARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Gertrude Wood Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRANKLINTON DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds The Starfish Alliance Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds OHIO LAND BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Central Ohio Community Land Trust Corporation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County · Harry C Moores Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Central Ohio Community Improvement 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.
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.