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Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio

Cohhio is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to ending homelessness and promoting decent, safe, fair, affordable housing for all, with a focus on assisting low-income people and those with special needs.

$30k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Human Services$8.5MHousing & Shelter$6.3MHealth$1.2MCommunity Improvement$803kFood & Nutrition$227kReligion$190kPhilanthropy$75kYouth Development$29kCrime & Legal$10kOther$2.8M
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOSEPH'S HOME$10,000
PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ONEEIGHTY: $91k → 10%NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $60k → 11%THE COCOON: $10k → 12%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $80k → 12%ELYRIA YWCA: $10k → 13%DAYBREAK: $10k → 14%PROJECT WOMAN: $10k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $65k → 16%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER (MARION SHELTER PROGRAM): $10k → 17%SOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK: $30k → 21%INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $76k → 22%SCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $15k → 22%ONEEIGHTY: $72k → 10%NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $31k → 11%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $31k → 12%HOMEFULL: $306k → 14%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $401k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $64k → 16%TURNING POINT: $10k → 17%SOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK: $10k → 21%THE EDNA BROOKS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 22%ONEEIGHTY: $19k → 10%NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $18k → 11%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $19k → 12%HOMEFULL: $207k → 14%INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $13k → 16%BEACH HOUSE INC: $62k → 18%STARK HOUSING NETWORK INC: $70k → 13%HOMEFULL: $91k → 14%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $31k → 15%BEACH HOUSE INC: $58k → 18%STARK HOUSING NETWORK INC: $50k → 13%BEACH HOUSE INC: $39k → 18%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1.3M → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $420k → 16%TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY HOMELESSNESS BOARD: $27k → 18%CLINTONVILLE BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER: $2.4M → 15%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $91k → 16%TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY HOMELESSNESS BOARD: $17k → 18%CLINTONVILLE BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER: $640k → 15%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA COUNTIES: $20k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $30k → 15%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $30k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICE (MH SERVS FOR HOMELESS PERSONS): $28k → 17%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $115k → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 41 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 40 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
65

Total granted

$19M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

95%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4.1M · revenue +124% · 59% of their budget
  • ST
    Strategies to End Homelessness Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +15%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • OD
    OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue +80%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -6%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
2
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
3
Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour

Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
4
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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5
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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6
The Open Shelter Inc

The open shelter provides, directly or by referral emergency shelter and assistance for homeless and marginally housed persons in central ohio, especially the most vulnerable among them; and to provide directly or by referral, coordinated,…

Housing & Shelter
7
Columbus House Inc

Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…

Housing & Shelter
8
Samaritan House Inc

Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Promise of Northwest Oh

The organization provides homeless prevention services, emergency shelter and basic needs, housing solutions and family and early childhood services to families in a housing crisis

Human Services
10
Shalom House

Our mission is to empower women and transform lives.

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11
Community Shelter Services Inc

Provide temporary shelter and food for homeless families and individuals. also to provide living accomodations through a single resident occupancy program

Housing & Shelter
12
Homeless Outreach Team of Stark Cou

Assist the homeless to rise out of poverty

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Home Is the Foundation. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Senior & Vulner…Professional & Trade Associ…Community Economic Developm…Youth Leadership DevelopmentChristian Ministry Organiza…Behavioral Health & Recover…Food Banks & Hunger Relief
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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr16%43%35–55yr20%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr16%74%35–55yr20%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
12%
5,648/46,972

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.

04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 108 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/103
Grantees still filing
76/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $3,004,663 · Human ServicesCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENT…Strategies to End Homelessness Inc — $1,784,448 · Human ServicesStrategies to End Homelessness IncTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $1,490,480 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATIONHOMEFULL — $604,876 · Human ServicesHOMEFULL+35 more — $1,597,222 · Human Services+35 moreALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $4,142,572 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORK — $882,980 · Housing & ShelterEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETW…FAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $485,658 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INCLICKING COUNTY COALITION FOR HOUSING INC — $258,486 · Housing & Shelter+16 more — $489,712 · Housing & Shelter+16 moreCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $1,515,302 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTE…ZEPF CENTER — $454,581 · OtherZEPF CENTERSHELTERED INC — $255,832 · OtherSHELTERED INCCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON-MORGAN COUNTIES OHIO — $153,855 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $100,000 · Other+28 more — $483,512 · Other+28 moreCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $720,489 · HealthCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $226,534 · HealthSoutheast Inc — $144,968 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD PROPERTIES INC — $60,000 · Health+4 more — $69,600 · HealthWest Ohio Community Action Partnership — $386,327 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC — $259,007 · Community ImprovementCATHOLIC CHARITIES REGIONAL AGENCY — $131,602 · Community Improvement+2 more — $26,000 · Community ImprovementFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $226,725 · Food & NutritionLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $180,000 · ReligionFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $10,000 · Religion
Human Services$8,481,689Housing & Shelter$6,259,408Other$2,963,082Health$1,221,591Community Improvement$802,936Food & Nutrition$226,725Religion$190,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $4,142,572 over 3y, 59% of budgetCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $3,004,663 over 2y, 41% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc — $1,784,448 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $1,515,302 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $1,490,480 over 3y, 13% of budgetEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORK — $882,980 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $720,489 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOMEFULL — $604,876 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $485,658 over 3y, 42% of budgetZEPF CENTER — $454,581 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWest Ohio Community Action Partnership — $386,327 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC — $259,007 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLICKING COUNTY COALITION FOR HOUSING INC — $258,486 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSHELTERED INC — $255,832 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $226,725 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $226,534 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetONEEIGHTY INC — $181,108 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $180,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEACH HOUSE INC — $158,995 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFINDLAY HOPE HOUSE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $155,605 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFAITH MISSION INC — $153,857 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON-MORGAN COUNTIES OHIO — $153,855 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSoutheast Inc — $144,968 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY INC — $141,607 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES REGIONAL AGENCY — $131,602 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $130,107 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTARK HOUSING NETWORK INC — $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK — $115,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $113,980 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI — $109,375 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROPERTIES INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF FAYETTE COUNTY — $45,116 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTLC HOMELESSNESS BOARD — $44,568 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER CARE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $29,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $25,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF DELAWARE COUNTY — $23,750 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $21,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY ABUSE SHELTER OF MIAMI COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Ohio Capital Impact C…The Westfield Insuran…Columbus FoundationThe Reinberger Founda…Robert H Reakirt Fdn …The George Gund Found…Ohio Community Develo…Akron Community Found…Corporation for Suppo…The Cleveland Foundat…John Henry Eldred Jr …The Dayton Foundation
Ohio Capital Impact CorporationOH38.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · The George Gund Foundation · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · Akron Community Foundation · Corporation for Supportive Housing · The Cleveland Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Dayton 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 Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    44report 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 108 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 $250 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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