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Community Shares of Mid Ohio
Community shares' mission is to build relationships between donors and member nonprofit organizations who are committed to challenging injustices and supporting social change by ensuring the equitable distribution of resources, wealth and power; providing people with the tools to create change on a systemic level; advocating for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $459,666 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $558,229 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,563 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDEN FOR ALL | $84,009 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF | $65,996 |
| COLUMBUS HUMANE | $52,892 |
| CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC | $46,398 |
| STOP THE SUFFERING | $28,376 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO | $24,443 |
| MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - MICHIGAN | $14,097 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE YOUTH CENTER | $13,495 |
| COMMUNITY REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION | $13,236 |
| NARAL PRO CHOICE OHIO FOUNDATION | $12,068 |
| CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE | $11,864 |
| COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $10,605 |
| RESCUEDOHIO | $10,258 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS | $9,774 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $8,660 |
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 (FY17–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- CHCOLUMBUS HUMANE9× · 2017–2025 · $556k · revenue +121%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +41%
- TCTHE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- HOHEART OF OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $44k
- NINNEMAP INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +73%
- TOTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +45%
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.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To improve the quality, delivery, and value of healthcare and the overall health for all people in the columbus region
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.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Our mission is to serve the people and animals of Central Ohio by providing safe, temporary shelter and care for abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and dogs, and to reduce pet overpopulation by means of spay and neuter, education, and…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The citizens utility board of ohio (cub ohio) works on behalf of residential and small business utility customers. with membership across the state, cub ohio works for cheaper bills, reliable service, transparency, consumer rights, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patches of Light. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 41 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.
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 COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds ABORTION FORWARD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Equitas Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PATCHES OF LIGHT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RESCUEDOHIO ↗
- Who funds COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds GET BEHIND THE BADGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DREAMS ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds Yay Bikes ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MOTT CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds NNEMAP INC ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRANSITION INSTITUTE ↗
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 · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Safelite Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute
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 Community Shares of Mid Ohio 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.