· Public charity
Columbus Downtown Development Corporation
Planning, development, and management of projects for the revitalization of downtown columbus.
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 7 grants below total $532,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $632,353 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,853 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER COLUMBUS CONV & VISITORS BUREAU DBA EXPERIENCE COLUMBUS | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CITY OF COLUMBUS | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| CAPITOL SOUTH COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| GREATER COLUMBUS SPORTS COMMISSION -GREATER COLUMBUS CONV & VISITORS BUREAU | $32,500 |
| COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +27%
- NVNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +43%
- GCGREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC3× · 2020–2024 · $198k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SPSCIOTO PENINSULA NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITYone grant, 2020 · $583k
- MOMID OHIO REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- AEAmerican Electric Power Foundationone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -82%
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.
Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.
Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
Planning, development, and management of projects for the revitalization of downtown columbus. please see part i, line 1 and schedule o for continuation of the significant activities statement.
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
One columbus is a regional private-public sector partnership that will leverage central ohio's research and academic institutions, diverse industries to position the state capital to become the fastest growing economy in the country and…
The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…
The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Veterans Memorial and Museum Operating Corporation and the most unlike its peers is American Electric Power Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL SOUTH COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus State Community Partners ↗
- Who funds American Electric Power Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SID PUBLIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB ↗
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 · L Brands 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 Downtown Development Corporation 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.