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Columbiana Community Foundation Inc

Charitable organization providing educational scholarships to graduates in the community and grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations for the benefit of the communities of columbiana and fairfield township. Our mission is to continue to raise funds from the general public as well as to manage funds under investment to provide income to…

$319k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$298k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$11,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$128,227
Organizations funded a year
4 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Columbiana Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$298k8%
FY202413$347k31%
FY20238$155k13%
FY20229$211k44%
FY20217$179k29%
FY20206$109k17%
FY20194$60k0%
FY20187$91k43%
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$205kPublic Benefit$176kRecreation & Sports$146kCommunity Improvement$119kEducation$111kHuman Services$100kFood & Nutrition$66kAnimals$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Columbiana$260,1787n/a
Col Ex School District$104,2285n/a
The Way Station$103,93884%
Columbiana Area Chamber of Commerce$95,877442%
Crestview Ex School District$90,7004n/a
Columbiana Area Meals on Wheels$77,850920%
Crown Theater Productions$64,2504n/a
Heartland Christian School$55,84731%
Columbiana Project Playground Inc$50,000212%
Historical Society of Columbiana and Fairfield Township Inc$49,1334n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Columbiana Community Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Columbiana$260,1787n/a
Col Ex School District$104,2285n/a
The Way Station$103,93884%
Columbiana Area Chamber of Commerce$95,877442%
Crestview Ex School District$90,7004n/a
Columbiana Area Meals on Wheels$77,850920%
Crown Theater Productions$64,2504n/a
Heartland Christian School$55,84731%
Columbiana Project Playground Inc$50,000212%
Historical Society of Columbiana and Fairfield Township Inc$49,1334n/a
Village of New Waterford$46,4103n/a
Columbiana Youth Baseball Inc$26,7852n/a
Clipper 12th Man$23,5682n/a
Columbiana Booster Club Inc$22,0001n/a
Columbiana Area Tourism Bureau$15,860110%
Crestview Soccer Boosters$8,225134%
Harmony Village Inc$6,00011%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Columbiana Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Way Station: $103,938 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetColumbiana Area Chamber of Commerce: $95,877 over 4y, 42% of budgetColumbiana Area Meals on Wheels: $77,850 over 9y, 20% of budgetHeartland Christian School: $55,847 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetColumbiana Project Playground Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetColumbiana Area Tourism Bureau: $15,860 over 1y, 10% of budgetCrestview Soccer Boosters: $8,225 over 1y, 34% of budgetHarmony Village Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Columbiana Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Columbiana Community Foundation Inc 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.

About Columbiana Community Foundation Inc

How much does Columbiana Community Foundation Inc give?
Columbiana Community Foundation Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $297,820, out of $319,070 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Columbiana Community Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Public Benefit (15%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Columbiana Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Columbiana ($260k), Col Ex School District ($104k), The Way Station ($104k).
Does Columbiana Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbiana Community Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Columbiana Community Foundation Inc based?
Columbiana Community Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 21 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 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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