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Columbus Youth Foundation

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

$202k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$423kHuman Services$420kRecreation & Sports$193kHealth$73kArts & Culture$66kEducation$27kCommunity Improvement$16kSocial Science$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $191,503 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,503 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 $10k6 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO$30,000
GOOD SPORTS INC$25,000
GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE$20,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION$14,000
FEMERGY$12,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO$11,275
DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL$10,000
RECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION$8,725
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,703
URBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY$8,500
FIRST TEE OF CENTRAL OHIO$8,000
CAMP WYANDOT INC$7,800
LIFECARE ALLIANCE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $14k → 5%ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $3k → 5%ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 15%FEMERGY: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $30k → 15%FEMERGY: $16k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $8k → 15%OUR HELPERS: $5k → 15%OHIO HISPANIC COALITION: $5k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $16k → 15%FEMERGY: $12k → 15%FEMERGY: $12k → 15%FEMERGY: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 22 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+88%

Still filing today

95%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEmploymentHealthOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +3%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO
    6× · 2018–2024 · $88k · revenue +20%
  • F
    FEMERGY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +358%

Funded once

  • TI
    THIOSSANE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +18%
  • MP
    MY PROJECT USA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -61%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +192%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Club Ohio Soccer Inc

Club ohio soccer is designed and structured to meet the needs of the elite boy's and girl's club soccer player who aspires to play at the highest level of competition. to be successful at the regional and national level, it's necessary to…

Recreation & Sports
2
Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc

Helping people grow and succeed through life-long, experience-based learning.

Environment
3
Ohio Alliance of Ymca's

We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…

Community Improvement
4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
6
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
7
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
8
Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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9
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
10
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
11
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
12
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Godman Guild Association and the most unlike its peers is Thiossane Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOhio Civic Advocacy Organiz…Youth Sports LeaguesConstruction Trade UnionsAffordable Housing ProvidersAffordable Housing Developm…Collegiate Sorority HousingBehavioral Health Advocacy …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr24%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr16%26%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr24%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
1,180/9,479

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOOD SPORTS INC — $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INCGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO — $71,275 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIODIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INCCamp Wyandot Inc — $45,210 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Wyandot IncGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $45,160 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL IN…URBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY — $28,500 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY+3 more — $19,210 · Youth DevelopmentGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE — $135,000 · Human ServicesGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSEYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $88,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIO…FEMERGY — $85,600 · Human ServicesFEMERGYADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER — $17,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $73,750 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SI…CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $54,744 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY H…CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL — $23,550 · OtherCRISTO REY COLUMBUS…LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $14,000 · OtherLOWER LIGHT MINISTR…LIFECARE ALLIANCE — $15,000 · OtherLIFECARE ALLIANCEGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,703 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherFUGEES FAMILY INC — $42,500 · Recreation & SportsRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $37,861 · Recreation & SportsTHE MORTON FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,700 · Recreation & SportsMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureTHIOSSANE INSTITUTE — $12,980 · Arts & CultureWellity Education — $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $20,586 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSE — $9,500 · PhilanthropyDeaf Services Center Inc — $20,000 · Health
Youth Development$469,355Human Services$350,600Other$214,747Recreation & Sports$91,061Arts & Culture$66,480Philanthropy$30,086Health$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE — $135,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $88,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFEMERGY — $85,600 over 7y, 18% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $73,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO — $71,275 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $54,744 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $47,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCamp Wyandot Inc — $45,210 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $45,160 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC — $42,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $37,861 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY — $28,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $20,586 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDeaf Services Center Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER — $17,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHIOSSANE INSTITUTE — $12,980 over 1y, 19% of budgetMY PROJECT USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $9,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,703 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWellity Education — $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetOUR HELPERS — $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetOHIO HISPANIC COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $1,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…Siemer Family Foundat…Harry C Moores Founda…Cardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…L Brands FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Encova Foundation of …Nisource Charitable F…Columbus Blue Jackets…
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

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 Youth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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