· Public charity
Columbus Area United Way Inc
The columbus area united way focuses resources to improve individual lives and help build a stronger community by providing leadership, creating coalitions, and helping to develop resources to change community conditions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $336,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $371,012 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,266 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS EMERGENCY RELIEF | $59,347 |
| CENTER FOR SURVIVORS | $52,838 |
| PLATTE VALLEY LITERACY ASSOCIATION | $48,614 |
| ARC OF PLATTE COUNTY | $40,002 |
| COLUMBUS FAMILY YMCA | $30,917 |
| YOUTH AND FAMILIES FOR CHRIST | $23,367 |
| TEAMMATES COLUMBUS | $21,985 |
| BIG PALS-LITTLE PALS | $20,581 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $19,247 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLUMBUS | $13,609 |
| FAITH REG CHILD ADVOCACY | $6,239 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ARC OF PLATTE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +46% · 85% of their budget
- YAYOUTH AND FAMILIES FOR CHRIST INC7× · 2018–2024 · $223k · revenue +17%
- CFCENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $184k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR SUVIVORSone grant, 2017 · $94k
- OYOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Senior Citizen Center provides Senior Citizens with Home Delivered and Congregate Meals as well as a meeting place for senior citizens.
To organize, promote, assist and support local governmental and private agencies offering programs benefiting children and families in lucas county
To provide meals to the elderly
Christian youth center
To operate a charitable community food pantry.
Organizing activities for area teens.
To provide a safe place for youth to come after school
To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.
To provide advocacy in court for children.
To provide a center for youth/family activity & counseling. assist community in times of crisis.
Food for the elderly and needy
To engage youth by providing innovative programs, nutritious meals and a safe place to socialize; To honor youth by offering support, acceptance, and a sense of purpose; To build coalitions which advocate for youth, family and community;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Regional Health Services and the most unlike its peers is Boone County Health Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 PLATTE VALLEY LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF PLATTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILIES FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Emergency Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FAMILY Y INC ↗
- Who funds BIG PALS-LITTLE PALS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds PLATTE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLUMBUS NE ↗
- Who funds FAITH REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLFAX COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
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.
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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 Columbus Area United Way Inc 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.
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.