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Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The COLUMBUS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and physicians of central ohio.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$674k
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 2024.

Health$10MEducation$2.0MHuman Services$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kPhilanthropy$109k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$360,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION$674,468
COTS$360,000
PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$302,000
HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS$275,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ANTHEM CARES INC: $113k → 16%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $817k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $762k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $715k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $674k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $600k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $540k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $500k → 15%PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $493k → 15%COTS: $360k → 15%COTS: $360k → 15%COTS: $360k → 15%CENTRAL OHIO TRAUMA SYSTEM: $340k → 15%CENTRAL OHIO TRAUMA SYSTEM: $340k → 15%COTS: $340k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $307k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $302k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $302k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $302k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $300k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $300k → 15%CENTRAL OHIO TRAUMA SYSTEM: $300k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $300k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $300k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $280k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $275k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $275k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $249k → 15%PHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $237k → 15%CENTRAL OHIO TRAUMA SYSTEM: $236k → 15%LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH: $10k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $299k → 15%HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $275k → 15%OHIO PSYCHIATRIC PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $99k → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 5 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$13M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+140%
+166%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • PC
    PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +140% · 32% of their budget
  • C
    COTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +42%
  • AH
    ACCESS HEALTHCOLUMBUS DBA HEALTH IMPACT OHIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +547%

Funded once

  • EH
    ELEVANCE HEALTH CARES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue +293%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +36%
  • LL
    LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +166%
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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Columbus Medical Association

We are physicians and other experts improving the health of caregivers, patients and communities.

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Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
3
Columbus Medical Association Foundation Unlimited

To provide health and wellness services without geographic restriction.

International
4
Ohio Professionals Health Program

To facilitate the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals in order to enhance patient care and safety.

Health
5
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…

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6
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health
7
Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association

Enhance progress of psychiatry profession

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8
Columbus Ambulatory Healthcare Services Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

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9
Columbus Hospice Inc

Care of the terminally ill

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10
Association of Ohio Health Commissioners

The mission of aohc is to provide exceptional service to its members and to advance the mission of public health to prevent, promote and protect the health of the community by developing and maintaining strong local public health…

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11
Ohio Life Sciences Association

Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.

Community Improvement
12
Ohio State University Physicians Inc

The organization's mission is to improve, enhance and supplement the medical educational activities and services of the ohio state university college of medicine, and to enhance, improve and support the research and clinical service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Physicians Care Connection; the most unlike its peers is Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $5,100,697 · OtherPHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTIONTHE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherTHE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCOTS: $2,635,638 · HealthCOTSACCESS HEALTHCOLUMBUS DBA HEALTH IMPACT OHIO: $2,324,250 · HealthACCESS HEALTHCOLUMBUS DBA HEALTH IMPACT OHIO+1 more: $10,000 · HealthPHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $1,978,923 · EducationPHYSICIANS LEADER…+1 more: $17,644 · EducationELEVANCE HEALTH CARES INC: $112,636 · Public Safety & DisasterCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $108,565 · Philanthropy
Other$5,610,697Health$4,969,888Education$1,996,567Public Safety & Disaster$112,636Philanthropy$108,565

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $5,100,697 over 8y, 32% of budgetCOTS: $2,635,638 over 8y, 16% of budgetACCESS HEALTHCOLUMBUS DBA HEALTH IMPACT OHIO: $2,324,250 over 8y, 23% of budgetPHYSICIANS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $1,978,923 over 7y, 89% of budgetELEVANCE HEALTH CARES INC: $112,636 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $108,565 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $17,644 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO PSYCHIATRIC PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 44% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Medical Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Medical Association Foundation. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

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    How do I get to Columbus Medical Association Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Columbus Medical Association Foundation 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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