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Columbus Realtors Foundation
The COLUMBUS REALTORS FOUNDATION is organized and operated for charitable and educational purposes, including: making grants to charitable community improvement and affordable housing organizations, making scholarships to individuals pursuing real estate studies, making grants to programs for community improvement and assisting persons…
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 $86,047 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $126,628 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,581 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLINTON RISING | $24,500 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK | $15,000 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD | $10,000 |
| THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION DBA HOME FOR FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| YWCA COLUMBUS | $7,547 |
| FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $39k) 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +45%
- FRFranklinton Rising4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +160%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- VVVISTA VILLAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
- MHMELISSA'S HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -64%
- TBTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +55%
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.
Facilitate and invest in developments designed to: create and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods; support working households, seniors and special needs populations.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Supporting Homeless and Addicted Individuals with Food, Clothing and Spiritual Support.
Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.
To encourage the development and operation of affordable residential real estate in downtown columbus for women with limited income and own and/or operate affordable residential real estate in downtown columbus for women with limited…
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Shelter Board and the most unlike its peers is Franklinton Rising. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Franklinton Rising ↗
- Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
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 · Harry C Moores Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Siemer Family 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 Realtors 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.
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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