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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…

$127k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Housing & Shelter$239kReligion$200kHuman Services$45kFood & Nutrition$12k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $86,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,628 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,581 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLINTON RISING$24,500
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK$15,000
LIFECARE ALLIANCE$12,000
THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION DBA HOME FOR FAMILIES$10,000
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD$10,000
YWCA COLUMBUS$7,547
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION$7,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION DBA HOME FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $8k → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%BUCKEYE RANCH MY PLACE: $8k → 15%JOSEPH'S COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO: $6k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 5 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$377k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +45%
  • FR
    Franklinton Rising
    4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +75%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • VV
    VISTA VILLAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
  • MH
    MELISSA'S HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -64%
  • TB
    THE BUCKEYE RANCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +55%
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.

1
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
2
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

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

Health
3
Columbus House Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
5
Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour

Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

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,…

Human Services
8
Columbus Relief Inc

Supporting Homeless and Addicted Individuals with Food, Clothing and Spiritual Support.

Human Services
9
Community Housing Network Inc

Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.

Community Improvement
10
Ywca Housing Corporation

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…

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11
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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12
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Shelter Board; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $225,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLEFranklinton Rising: $94,500 · Housing & ShelterFranklinton RisingVISTA VILLAGE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterVISTA VILLAGE INCCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INCTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7,547 · Human ServicesFAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $10,000 · OtherMELISSA'S HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5,500 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank: $4,705 · OtherLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $18,000 · Food & NutritionOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Education
Religion$225,000Housing & Shelter$169,500Human Services$38,547Other$30,205Food & Nutrition$18,000Education$14,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $225,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFranklinton Rising: $94,500 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELISSA'S HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7,547 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJOSEPHS COAT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $4,705 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationHarry C Moores Founda…American Electric Pow…Cardinal Health Found…Encova Foundation of …Ingram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…L Brands FoundationColumbus Jewish Found…Nisource Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…
Columbus FoundationOH26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Realtors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Realtors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Realtors Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Columbus Realtors 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 15 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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