· Public charity
Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to supporting youth health and wellness in central ohio
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $82,222 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $173,253 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $91,031 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLINTON CYCLEWORKS | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL OHIO GIRLS' HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $13,891 |
| OHIO AAA BLUE JACKETS | $10,617 |
| OHIO SLED HOCKEY | $10,000 |
| KINGS CARE FOUNDATION | $6,534 |
| CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH ICE HOCKEY OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
| PELOTONIA | $5,434 |
| CCYHA COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS SPECIAL HOCKEY | $5,246 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) 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 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 +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 2 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO5× · 2018–2024 · $508k · revenue +20%
- NCNationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return4× · 2018–2024 · $504k · revenue +110%
- RORULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC5× · 2018–2023 · $317k · revenue +238%
Funded once
- OSOhio State Parks Foundationone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -23% · 29% of their budget
- COCITY OF WHITEHALLone grant, 2022 · $250k
- RURECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue +3%
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.
Club ohio soccer is designed and structured to meet the needs of the elite boy's and girl's club soccer player who aspires to play at the highest level of competition. to be successful at the regional and national level, it's necessary to…
To develop and operate youth ice hockey programs
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
Ohio high school athletic association is a not-for-profit association of public and private high schools and 7th-8th grade schools. approximately 820 high schools and nearly 760 7th-8th grade schools belong to the ohsaa, which represents…
To create, through sport, an elite training and competition environment that strives to reach the highest level of excellence while promoting personal development and providing a life enriching experience.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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…
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The columbus crew foundation changes young lives through a passion for soccer
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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. 59 of the 66 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds Ohio State Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO SLED HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds RECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS CHILL YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS OHIO ↗
- Who funds Columbus Recreation and Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds ATHENS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MARYHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EASTON YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR 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.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Safelite Foundation
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 Blue Jackets Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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