· Community foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $128,227 |
| COLUMBIANA PROJECT PLAYGROUND | $40,000 |
| HEARTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CRESTVIEW EX SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,000 |
| GRANTS EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN 5000 | $15,950 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLUMBIANA | $12,432 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $11,700 |
| VILLAGE OF NEW WATERFORD | $10,000 |
| THE WAY STATION INC | $9,718 |
| COLUMBIANA COUNTY ONE STOP | $8,725 |
| CLIPPER 12TH MAN | $8,568 |
| CITY OF COLUMBIANA | $8,500 |
| COLUMBIANA YOUTH BASEBALL INC | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWThe Way Station8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +261%
- CACOLUMBIANA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE4× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +77% · 42% of their budget
- CACOLUMBIANA AREA MEALS ON WHEELS9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CBCOLUMBIANA BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $22k
- CACOLUMBIANA AREA TOURISM BUREAUone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +13%
- CSCRESTVIEW SOCCER BOOSTERSone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -98% · 34% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect and distribute food and related items to families and individuals
To provide various care services to senior citizens.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
County fair
The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.
Child care focused on providing quality care in a christian environment.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Way Station ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIANA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIANA AREA MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Columbiana Project Playground Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIANA AREA TOURISM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds CRESTVIEW SOCCER BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Harmony Village Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Columbiana Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbiana Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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