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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…

$558k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$84k
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 2025.

Animals$1.3MHealth$699kFood & Nutrition$315kCivil Rights$271kHuman Services$220kHousing & Shelter$172kYouth Development$111kArts & Culture$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $459,666, the rows itemized in this filing. The $558,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $98,563 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 $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
$10,605
Median grant
3
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $8k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $8k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $6k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION: $18k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION: $15k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION: $13k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $10k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $8k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $7k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $7k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $6k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $6k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $6k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $5k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $5k → 15%NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION: $16k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION: $15k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION: $13k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $10k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $9k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $9k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $9k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $8k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $7k → 15%GET BEHIND THE BADGE: $11k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $7k → 15%GET BEHIND THE BADGE: $7k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $6k → 15%GET BEHIND THE BADGE: $6k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION: $6k → 15%NNEMAP: $7k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 33 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
5

Total granted

$3.3M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • CH
    COLUMBUS HUMANE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $556k · revenue +121%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +41%
  • TC
    THE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • HO
    HEART OF OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $44k
  • NI
    NNEMAP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +73%
  • TO
    THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +45%
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
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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2
Columbus Cares for Cats
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3
Access Healthcolumbus Dba Health Impact Ohio

To improve the quality, delivery, and value of healthcare and the overall health for all people in the columbus region

Health
4
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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5
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

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,…

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6
Citizens for Humane Action Inc

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…

Civil Rights
7
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
8
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
9
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

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

Health
10
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights
11
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 41 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS HUMANE: $555,562 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS HUMANETHE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $440,200 · AnimalsTHE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATIONSTOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE: $259,280 · AnimalsSTOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE+2 more: $57,860 · AnimalsPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $522,959 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF…Equitas Health Inc: $82,975 · HealthEquitas Health IncHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,428 · Health+1 more: $14,097 · HealthSTONEWALL COLUMBUS INC: $151,644 · OtherSTONEWALL COLUMBUS I…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $124,586 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY…ABORTION FORWARD: $102,675 · OtherABORTION FORWARDHEART OF OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $44,402 · OtherHEART OF OHIO CLASSI…WCBE RADIO: $30,434 · OtherINN AT BROAD INC: $27,446 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS OF OHIO: $26,529 · OtherCOALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO: $31,582 · Other+7 more: $91,045 · Other+7 moreCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $93,130 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KI…THE GARDEN FOR ALL: $84,009 · Food & NutritionTHE GARDEN F…LIFECARE ALLIANCE: $78,924 · Food & NutritionLIFECARE ALL…NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $59,949 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORHOOD…CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $49,714 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S H…COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC: $96,653 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $65,037 · Human ServicesOHIO DOME…PATCHES OF LIGHT: $59,542 · Human ServicesPATCHES O…FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $26,240 · Human ServicesFURNITURE…GET BEHIND THE BADGE INC: $25,033 · Human ServicesGET BEHIN…+2 more: $12,340 · Human ServicesKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $79,341 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $21,559 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $9,774 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF CASA OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO: $73,670 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $16,866 · Civil Rights
Animals$1,312,902Health$641,459Other$630,343Food & Nutrition$365,726Human Services$284,845Youth Development$110,674Civil Rights$90,536

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $555,562 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $522,959 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $440,200 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetSTOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE: $259,280 over 9y, 13% of budgetSTONEWALL COLUMBUS INC: $151,644 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $124,586 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetABORTION FORWARD: $102,675 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC: $96,653 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $93,130 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetTHE GARDEN FOR ALL: $84,009 over 1y, 16% of budgetEquitas Health Inc: $82,975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $79,341 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $78,924 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASA OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO: $73,670 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetOHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $65,037 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $59,949 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetPATCHES OF LIGHT: $59,542 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $49,714 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $44,402 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetRESCUEDOHIO: $36,088 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCOALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO: $31,582 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $26,240 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGET BEHIND THE BADGE INC: $25,033 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $21,772 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $21,559 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,428 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $17,972 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $16,866 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYay Bikes: $16,448 over 3y, 24% of budgetCOLUMBUS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $16,164 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION: $11,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNNEMAP INC: $7,055 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $5,474 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNative American Indian Center of Central Ohio Inc: $5,285 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way of Central…Nisource Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…L Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Cardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…Siemer Family Foundat…Harry C Moores Founda…Safelite FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…
Columbus FoundationOH44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Shares of Mid Ohio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Shares of Mid Ohio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 41 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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