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Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc

The columbus area chamber foundation encompasses a diverse array of community programs dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship, driving economic development, and attracting and retaining talent.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$982k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $200,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $231,857 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,657 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHALOM PROFESSIONAL CLEANING SERVICES LLC$15,000
ALVAREZ PAINTING LLC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CLEANING SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES LLC$10,000
JORY BANKS DBA A FAST BREAK TAX SERVICE$10,000
SALSA STREET LLC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
COLUMBUS HEALTHY ZONE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SEYMOUR PROTEIN ZONE: $10k → 11%COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $406k → 13%ELEVATE VENTURES: $140k → 16%SALSA STREET LLC: $10k → 11%GREATER COLUMBUS INDIANA EDC: $52k → 13%CR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: $9k → 11%SHALOM PROFESSIONAL CLEANING SERVICES LLC: $15k → 13%ALVAREZ PAINTING LLC: $15k → 13%SPIRIT FILLED CATERING LLC (FRANCELL WADE): $15k → 13%KEISHA RAE ESTHETICS (KEISHA CLOUGH): $11k → 13%COLUMBUS UPPERCUTS: $10k → 13%ADVANCE BUSINESS COMPUTING (DEBRA PETERS-SMITH): $10k → 13%CISCO BARBERSHOP: $10k → 13%COACH'S CUTZ: $10k → 13%CLEANING SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES LLC: $10k → 13%A FAST BREAK: $10k → 13%COLUMBUS HEALTHY ZONE: $10k → 13%GOD'S GLITTER BOX: $10k → 13%FRAGRANCE CLEANING: $10k → 13%GUATEMEX RESTAURANT: $10k → 13%COACH'S CUTZ: $10k → 13%COACH'S CUTZ (HAYWARD GIBSON): $10k → 13%PLATINUM DETAIL: $8k → 13%RODDIE'S CARPET CARE PLUS: $8k → 13%FINE LINE PAINTING: $8k → 13%CISCO BARBERSHOP: $8k → 13%ADVANCE BUSINESS COMPUTING: $7k → 13%STYLEZ BY NETTE (ANNETTE DU'WYCE PRESCOTT): $7k → 13%ADVANCE BUSINESS COMPUTING: $7k → 13%P&E INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS (BRIEL LOVE WILLIAMS): $7k → 13%CABRINA'S SAFE HAVEN FOR KIDZ LLC (CABRINA JACKSON): $6k → 13%STUDIO 55: $5k → 13%D&E PAINTING: $5k → 13%TRAINERCONNECT LLC (JADEN WILSON): $15k → 13%STYLEZ BY NETTE: $10k → 13%STYLEZ BY NETTE: $10k → 13%BANKIN BABY BBQ LLC (JOHNNIE EDWARDS): $10k → 13%BANKIN BABY BBQ: $9k → 13%AEROFLUX LLC: $8k → 13%BANKIN BABY BBQ: $7k → 13%SOLO VENDOR INC: $6k → 13%RUTH G CONSULTING (RUTH AGBOLOSOO): $6k → 13%COLUMBUS INDIANA PARTY RENTALS: $6k → 13%GREAT LAKES ENTERPRISES: $5k → 13%STYLISH BUNDLES: $5k → 13%JORY BANKS DBA A FAST BREAK TAX SERVICE: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 5 repeat orgs$895k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$87k
$739k

Still filing today

0%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k

Funded once

  • CA
    COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $406k · revenue -41% · 41% of their budget
  • EV
    Elevate Ventures Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue +41%
  • GC
    GREATER COLUMBUS INDIANA EDC
    one grant, 2023 · $52k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $406,435 · OtherCOLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCGREATER COLUMBUS INDIANA EDC: $52,000 · OtherGREATER COLUMBUS INDIANA EDC+38 more: $384,199 · Other+38 moreElevate Ventures Inc: $139,750 · Community ImprovementElevate Ventures…
Other$842,634Community Improvement$139,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $406,435 over 1y, 41% of budgetElevate Ventures Inc: $139,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Elevate Ventures Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Columbus Area Chamber 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.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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