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· 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.
$199k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Community Improvement$1.5MReligion$418kHousing & Shelter$173kHuman Services$60kPhilanthropy$50kEnvironment$20kOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$37,375
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Homes on the Hill$37,375
- Homeport Voice & Vision$30,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 9 repeat orgs$954k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
7
Total granted
$2.3M
$954k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+45%
+101%
Still filing today
89%
57%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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
- HVHomeport Voice & Vision6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +41%
- HOHomes on the Hill Community Develop6× · 2019–2024 · $639k · revenue +26% · 37% of their budget
- CDCommunity Development for All Peopl3× · 2019–2021 · $418k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- OCOhio Community Development Financegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue +192%
- PAParsons Avenue Redevelopment Corpone grant, 2022 · $231k · revenue -22% · 71% of their budget
- MFMid-Ohio Food Cleectivegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $123k · revenue +39%
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.
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Columbus Housing Initiative Inc
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Housing & Shelter
2
Community Shelter Board
Leads a community effort to ensure everyone has a place to call home. community shelter board leads a coordinated, community effort to make sure everyone has a place to call home in columbus and franklin county, ohio.
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3
The Affordable Housing Trust for
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.
Housing & Shelter
4
Columbus Economic Development
Provide incentives and other support as well as the development of property for the economic benefit of the city of columbus and the surrounding area.
Community Improvement
5
Columbus Compact Corporation
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
Community Improvement
6
Workforce Development Board of
To partner with area businesses and organizations on workforce needs so that people are fully employed at their ability and potential in the thriving central ohio economy.
Employment
7
Cincinnati Development Fund
To drive community revitalization by providing capital access and technical assistance.
Housing & Shelter
8
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…
Community Improvement
9
Ohio Housing Council
Real estate - to promote affordable housing
Community Improvement
10
Community Properties Impact Corporation
Community properties impact corporation (cpo impact) is a 501(c)(3) created for the purpose of helping community properties of ohio (cpo management) realize the three-fold mission to: 1. provide quality, affordable housing; 2. link…
Housing & Shelter
11
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Housing & Shelter
12
Columbus Area Habitat for Humanity Inc
Columbus habitat for humanity creates partnerships to construct and sell housing for those in need by building in communities that will be strengthened by these volunteer efforts and to raise awareness of critical housing issues.
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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.
04the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$1,450,062Other$1,117,500Religion$417,500Housing & Shelter$172,500Human Services$60,000Philanthropy$50,000Environment$20,000
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 Homeport Voice & Vision ↗
- Who funds Homes on the Hill Community Develop ↗
- Who funds Community Development for All Peopl ↗
- Who funds Ohio Community Development Finance ↗
- Who funds Parsons Avenue Redevelopment Corp ↗
- Who funds Homeport-Columbus Housing Partnersh ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Food Cleective ↗
- Who funds Gertrude Wood Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Franklinton Urban Empowerment Lab ↗
- Who funds Integrated Community Enterprises ↗
- Who funds Starfish Retention Fund ↗
- Who funds Community Development Collaborative ↗
- 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.
Central Ohio Community Land Trust CorporationOH26.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Central Ohio Community Land Trust Corporation · Columbus Foundation · Community Development Collaborative · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · The Affordable Housing Trust For · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Parsons Avenue Redevelopment Corp.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 463644554 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Parsons Avenue Redevelopment Corp, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Central Ohio Community Improvement?
Find your warmest path to Central Ohio Community Improvement through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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