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Columbus Female Benevolent Society

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$192kFood & Nutrition$66kHealth$13kYouth Development$2kEducation$1kArts & Culture$250
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$600
Median grant
1
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
34 INDIGENT DIRECT RELIEF RECIPIENTS$23,389
NNEMAP INC$3,700
BROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$3,500
BROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,350
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,869
Individual grant recipient$719
GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED GRIN$600
MID-OHIO WORKERS ASSOCIATION$500
BISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER$500
Individual grant recipient$285
NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COMMUNITY WELLNESS$271
Individual grant recipient$183
IMPACT - JUST IN TIME CLOSET$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $1k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $640 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $640 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $320 → 15%NNEMAP INC: $7k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $4k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $3k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $3k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $2k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $2k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $1k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $500 → 15%GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED GRIN: $1k → 15%GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED GRIN: $600 → 15%GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED: $300 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 15 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +145% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$267k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+6%

Still filing today

27%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $683 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthReligionOther

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

  • NI
    NNEMAP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +145%
  • FB
    FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • GR
    GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +378%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TEEN AND PREGNANT CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • SM
    ST MARK'S ESPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

2
Healthsource of Ohio Inc

Healthsource of ohio is a nonprofit community health center that provides quality, patient-centered health care to underserved patients in southwest ohio.

3
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

4
Coalition of Care Greater Cincinnati

Coalition of Care exists to mobilize churches and to inspire volunteers to care for vulnerable children and fragile families

Youth Development
5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.

Human Services
6
Lifecare Hospice

The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.

7
National Church Residences At Home Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, our mission is to provide high quality care, services and residential communities for all seniors.

8
A Healthier Ohio Now Inc

Educate about issues related to Medicaid

9
Hospice of Central Ohio

Our mission is to provide compassionate end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual care support.

10
Life Resources of Northern Michigan Inc

Provide crisis pregnancy services

Human Services
11
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
12
Goshen Hospital & Health Care
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifecare Alliance. 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

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

34 INDIGENT DIRECT RELIEF RECIPIENTS — $166,590 · Other34 INDIGENT DIRECT RELIEF RECIPIENTSBROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $28,402 · OtherBROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRY — $14,600 · OtherBROAD ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRYNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $10,091 · Other+17 more — $25,477 · Other+17 moreNNEMAP INC — $22,604 · Human ServicesNNEMAP INCFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $2,630 · Human ServicesFURNITURE B…GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED — $1,900 · Human ServicesGAHANNA RES…COMPASS INC — $1,350 · HealthBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $500 · ReligionLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$245,160Human Services$27,134Health$1,350Religion$500Food & Nutrition$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNNEMAP INC — $22,604 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $2,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED — $1,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS INC — $1,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NNEMAP INC
  • Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO
  • Who funds GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED
  • Who funds COMPASS INC
  • Who funds BISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
  • Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE

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.

Columbus FoundationOH13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Female Benevolent Society 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.

2024
2021222324
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2024

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Columbus Female Benevolent Society?

    Find your warmest path to Columbus Female Benevolent Society 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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