How much does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation give?

Columbus Kiwanis Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $81,185, out of $127,566 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (21%), Environment (14%).

Who are Columbus Kiwanis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation ($82k), Friends of the Conservatory ($81k), Furniture Bank of Central Ohio ($44k).

Does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Kiwanis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Ohio Inc, Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation.

Where is Columbus Kiwanis Foundation based?

Columbus Kiwanis Foundation is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

Columbus Kiwanis Foundation

The kiwanis club of columbus with its foundation is a diverse service organization of people with like interests who come together to make a substantive impact in strengthening and making central ohio a better place one-child at a time.

$128k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $81k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $11,385
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 9; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Columbus Kiwanis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$81k	38%
FY2024	9	$94k	67%
FY2023	6	$51k	50%
FY2022	6	$51k	33%
FY2021	7	$47k	57%
FY2020	7	$143k	71%
FY2019	5	$58k	80%
FY2018	5	$49k	80%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$116kEducation$111kEnvironment$75kFood & Nutrition$67kHealth$49kCommunity Improvement$34kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation	$82,227	6	1%
Friends of the Conservatory	$81,000	2	9%
Furniture Bank of Central Ohio	$44,180	4	0%
The Homeless Families Foundation	$28,878	3	0%
Philanthropitch	$25,000	1	5%
Miracle on Long Street	$24,361	2	n/a
Celebrateone	$23,550	2	5%
Little Bottoms Free Store	$21,700	2	4%
Columbus Early Learning Centers	$18,097	3	0%
Columbus & Central Ohio Children's Chorus Foundation	$16,482	2	2%

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All grantees of Columbus Kiwanis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation	$82,227	6	1%
Friends of the Conservatory	$81,000	2	9%
Furniture Bank of Central Ohio	$44,180	4	0%
The Homeless Families Foundation	$28,878	3	0%
Philanthropitch	$25,000	1	5%
Miracle on Long Street	$24,361	2	n/a
Celebrateone	$23,550	2	5%
Little Bottoms Free Store	$21,700	2	4%
Columbus Early Learning Centers	$18,097	3	0%
Columbus & Central Ohio Children's Chorus Foundation	$16,482	2	2%
Ohio State University Foundation	$16,000	2	0%
Central Community House	$15,500	2	0%
St Vincent Family Services	$15,347	2	0%
The Center for Healthy Families	$15,000	1	n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$14,294	2	0%
Ohio Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics	$13,700	2	0%
Student Success Stores	$12,575	1	17%
Treats4thestreets	$11,794	1	n/a
Families Flourish Inc	$11,385	1	0%
Seeds of Caring	$10,000	1	1%
Leveling the Playing Field Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Shares of Mid Ohio	$8,500	1	1%
Good Neighbors of Central Ohio	$8,078	1	13%
The Ohio State University	$8,000	1	n/a
Community Development for All People	$8,000	1	0%
Wellity Education	$7,500	1	2%
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center	$7,000	1	0%
Lifecare Alliance	$6,500	1	0%
Broad Street Presbyterian Church	$6,333	1	n/a
Presbyterian Church USA	$6,250	1	n/a
Nnemap Inc	$6,250	1	n/a
My Very Own Blanket Project Inc	$5,427	1	0%
General Council on Finance & Admin of the United Methodist Church	$5,280	1	5%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$5,270	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Columbus Kiwanis Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

United Way of Central Ohio IncOH42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation

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.

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About Columbus Kiwanis Foundation

How much does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation give?: Columbus Kiwanis Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $81,185, out of $127,566 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (21%), Environment (14%).
Who are Columbus Kiwanis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation ($82k), Friends of the Conservatory ($81k), Furniture Bank of Central Ohio ($44k).
Does Columbus Kiwanis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Kiwanis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Ohio Inc, Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation.
Where is Columbus Kiwanis Foundation based?: Columbus Kiwanis Foundation is based in OH.