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Columbus Youth Foundation

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

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Youth Development$423kHuman Services$420kRecreation & Sports$193kHealth$73kArts & Culture$66kEducation$27kCommunity Improvement$16kSocial Science$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $186,060, the rows itemized in this filing. The $211,060 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE$70,000
GOOD SPORTS INC$20,000
DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES$20,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL$10,000
URBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY$10,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION$10,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$10,000
FIRST TEE OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
UNITED SCHOOLS NETWORK INC DBA UNITED SCHOOLS$6,060
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $14k → 5%ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $10k → 5%ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 15%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $3k → 5%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: $70k → 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
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 24 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+88%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • GS
    GOOD SPORTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +10%
  • 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%

Funded once

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

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

Environment
2
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
3
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
8
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
9
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
10
Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell

The mission of girls incorporated is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. girls incorporated provides trained, professional staff; a single-gender environment; and research-based programming that, together, empowers girls to…

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

To inspire and enable young people who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

—
12
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Directions for Youth and Families Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SPORTS INC: $125,000 · 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: $81,275 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIODIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INCGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC: $55,160 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL IN…Camp Wyandot Inc: $45,210 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Wyandot IncURBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY: $38,500 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY+3 more: $19,210 · Youth DevelopmentGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $205,000 · Human ServicesGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSEYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $88,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O…FEMERGY: $85,600 · Human ServicesFEMERGYADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $27,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDERETHIOPIAN 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 …CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE: $54,744 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY…CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $23,550 · OtherCRISTO REY COLUMB…LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $14,000 · OtherLOWER LIGHT MINIS…Deaf Services Center Inc: $20,000 · OtherDeaf Services Cen…LIFECARE ALLIANCE: $15,000 · OtherLIFECARE ALLIANCEGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherFUGEES FAMILY INC: $42,500 · Recreation & SportsRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $37,861 · Recreation & SportsTHE MORTON FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $10,000 · 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 · PhilanthropyOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,703 · EducationUNITED SCHOOLS: $6,060 · Education
Youth Development$539,355Human Services$430,600Other$226,044Recreation & Sports$111,061Arts & Culture$66,480Philanthropy$30,086Education$24,763

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 budgetGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $205,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $125,000 over 6y, 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 budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO: $81,275 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $73,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC: $55,160 over 6y, 0.1% 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 budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN LACROSSE ACADEMY: $38,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $37,861 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $20,586 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDeaf Services Center Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,703 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 budgetGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY PROJECT USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR HOUSE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED SCHOOLS: $6,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellity Education: $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetOHIO HISPANIC COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR HELPERS: $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $1,710 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.

    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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