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Columbus Automobile Dealers Association at a glance

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Columbus Automobile Dealers Association

The association was organized to promote and stimulate trade and commerce for new automobile dealers in columbus metrpopolitan area, franklin county and surrounding counties.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$728kHealth$441kHuman Services$305kYouth Development$130kEducation$112kRecreation & Sports$73kCommunity Improvement$63kPhilanthropy$30k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$225,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRIVING OHIO FORWARD$225,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A KID AGAIN: $56k → 15%JOSEPH'S COAT: $39k → 15%NC4K: $30k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES: $27k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES: $24k → 15%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$915k · 4 repeat orgs$966k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$915k
$966k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DO
    DREAMS ON HORSEBACK
    2× · 2019–2024 · $103k · revenue +44%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc
    2× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +67%
  • NB
    NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $143k
  • T2
    THE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $73k · revenue +72%
  • PR
    PINK RIBBON GOOD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $73k · revenue +164%
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

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.

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Advocates for Kids

Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…

Youth Development
2
Columbus Children's Foundation

Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.

Health
3
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
4
Healing the Children Michigan-Ohio

Healing the children michigan/ohio is a not for profit humanitarian organization dedicated to securing gratis medical and surgical care for children in need.

—
5
Ohio Center for Hope

To promote mental health research in medical developments

Health
6
Rmh of Akroninc

The organization provides lodging for children and their parentswhile they are receiving treatment at local hospitals. the organization gives the parents and other family members an affordable place to stay while being near their children.

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7
Josh Cares Inc

Josh cares provides companionship and comfort to children hospitalized in critical care units at childrens' hospital who are alone. josh cares fellows serve as surrogates for, and as links to, the families who would be by their childrens'…

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8
Miracles for Kids Inc

Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they concentrate on what is most important - fighting for their child's life.

Recreation & Sports
9
Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc

Our Mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

—
10
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
11
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

—
12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Indiana-Michiana Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 2ND and 7 Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Disabled American Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRIVING OHIO FORWARD: $667,500 · Public BenefitDRIVING OHIO FORWARDSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $60,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOLUTIONS INCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $142,600 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $93,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities o…OSUCCC-JAMES COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $63,000 · OtherOSUCCC-JAMES COMMUNITY PARTNERSCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION-CENTRAL OH CHAPTER: $55,500 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION-CENTRA…THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $39,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYDisabled American Veterans: $39,000 · OtherDisabled American VeteransDOUBLE PORTION MINISTRIES INC: $27,000 · OtherBRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherBRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IN…CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $27,000 · OtherBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $27,000 · Other+1 more: $9,500 · OtherPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $73,333 · HealthPINK RIBBON…COLUMBUS SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $55,500 · HealthCOLUMBUS SP…Unverferth House Inc: $30,000 · HealthUnverferth …BEEHIVE ALLIANCE: $27,000 · HealthBEEHIVE ALL…A KID AGAIN INC: $55,500 · Human ServicesA KID AGAI…NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES: $51,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHO…JOSEPHS COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS CO…NELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNELLIES CH…DREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $103,333 · Youth DevelopmentTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $73,333 · Recreation & SportsCHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC: $63,000 · Education
Public Benefit$727,500Other$552,600Health$185,833Human Services$175,500Youth Development$103,333Recreation & Sports$73,333Education$63,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRIVING OHIO FORWARD: $667,500 over 3y, 69% of budgetDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $103,333 over 2y, 13% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $93,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $73,333 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC: $63,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $55,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $55,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES: $51,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOSEPHS COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $39,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $39,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetBRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUnverferth House Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $27,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBEEHIVE ALLIANCE: $27,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Harry C Moores Founda…Ingram-White Castle F…Baird Foundation IncColumbus Blue Jackets…Margaret and Robert W…Siemer Family Foundat…Safelite FoundationThe Foundation of the…Cardinal Health Found…United Way of Central…
Columbus FoundationOH25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Safelite Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Columbus Automobile Dealers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Automobile Dealers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    2report 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, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Columbus Automobile Dealers Association?

    Find your warmest path to Columbus Automobile Dealers Association 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 24 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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