How much does Columbus Youth Foundation give?

Columbus Youth Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $186,060, out of $211,060 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Columbus Youth Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Human Services (34%), Recreation & Sports (16%).

Who are Columbus Youth Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gladden Community House ($205k), Good Sports Inc ($125k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc ($95k).

Does Columbus Youth Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Youth Foundation?

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

Where is Columbus Youth Foundation based?

Columbus Youth Foundation is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

Columbus Youth Foundation

The COLUMBUS YOUTH FOUNDATION supports recreational programs for underprivileged youth in columbus.

$211k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $186k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $70,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 17; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $5.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Columbus Youth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthEducationOther

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	11	$186k	18%
FY2024	15	$192k	13%
FY2023	11	$126k	9%
FY2022	16	$200k	6%
FY2021	15	$191k	7%
FY2020	17	$161k	35%
FY2019	15	$125k	40%
FY2018	16	$141k	63%

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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.

Youth Development$423kHuman Services$420kRecreation & Sports$193kHealth$73kArts & Culture$66kEducation$27kCommunity Improvement$16kSocial Science$10kOther$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
Gladden Community House	$205,000	8	3%
Good Sports Inc	$125,000	6	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$95,000	6	0%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$88,000	6	0%
Femergy	$85,600	7	18%
Girls on the Run of Central Ohio	$81,275	7	4%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc	$80,000	6	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc	$73,750	4	1%
Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council Inc	$55,160	6	0%
Central Community House	$54,744	6	0%

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All grantees of Columbus Youth Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Gladden Community House	$205,000	8	3%
Good Sports Inc	$125,000	6	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$95,000	6	0%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$88,000	6	0%
Femergy	$85,600	7	18%
Girls on the Run of Central Ohio	$81,275	7	4%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc	$80,000	6	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc	$73,750	4	1%
Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council Inc	$55,160	6	0%
Central Community House	$54,744	6	0%
Momentum-Excellence Inc	$47,500	6	1%
Camp Wyandot Inc	$45,210	6	3%
Fugees Family Inc	$42,500	3	0%
Urban Lacrosse Academy	$38,500	4	18%
Recreation Unlimited Foundation	$37,861	6	0%
Adaptive Sports Connection Corder	$27,000	3	1%
Cristo Rey Columbus High School	$23,550	3	n/a
Deaf Services Center Inc	$20,000	3	0%
Ohio State University Foundation	$18,703	2	0%
The Morton Foundation	$18,000	2	1%
Lifecare Alliance	$15,000	2	0%
Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services	$15,000	2	n/a
Lower Light Ministries Inc	$14,000	4	1%
Thiossane Institute	$12,980	1	19%
Godman Guild Association	$10,000	3	0%
Leveling the Playing Field Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Aspen Institute Inc	$10,000	1	0%
My Project USA	$10,000	1	0%
Star House	$9,500	1	0%
Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc	$7,500	1	2%
United Schools	$6,060	1	0%
Wellity Education	$6,000	1	6%
Ohio Hispanic Coalition	$5,000	1	0%
Our Helpers	$5,000	1	9%
Capital City Youth Strength And	$5,000	1	n/a
The 2nd and 7 Foundation	$2,700	1	n/a
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc	$1,710	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Columbus Youth 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 32.

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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.

Columbus FoundationOH56.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much does Columbus Youth Foundation give?: Columbus Youth Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $186,060, out of $211,060 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Columbus Youth Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Human Services (34%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are Columbus Youth Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gladden Community House ($205k), Good Sports Inc ($125k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc ($95k).
Does Columbus Youth Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Youth Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
Where is Columbus Youth Foundation based?: Columbus Youth Foundation is based in OH.