How much does Community Shelter Board give?

Community Shelter Board reported 17 itemized grants totaling $46,839,569, out of $52,574,734 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Community Shelter Board fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (51%), Housing & Shelter (35%), Health (10%).

Who are Community Shelter Board's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio ($83M), Community Housing Network Inc ($43M), Homefull ($38M).

Does Community Shelter Board fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Shelter Board?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc, American Electric Power Foundation.

Where is Community Shelter Board based?

Community Shelter Board is based in OH.

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Community Shelter Board

The COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

$53M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 5%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $47M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $1,148,023
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,610,036
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Community Shelter Board funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthReligionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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	17	$47M	0%
FY2024	19	$43M	5%
FY2023	18	$38M	17%
FY2022	20	$35M	25%
FY2021	15	$32M	0%
FY2020	16	$26M	6%
FY2019	15	$23M	0%
FY2018	17	$23M	6%

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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 2025.

Human Services$147MHousing & Shelter$101MHealth$29MPublic Safety & Disaster$8.9MYouth Development$4.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEmployment$43k

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
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$83,370,481	9	24%
Community Housing Network Inc	$42,595,749	9	54%
Homefull	$38,314,932	6	51%
The Homeless Families Foundation	$22,039,995	9	52%
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio	$19,238,930	9	16%
Young Women's Christian Association	$19,224,966	9	25%
National Church Residences	$9,299,221	9	2%
Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana	$8,905,334	9	n/a
Southeast Inc	$7,956,183	9	3%
Maryhaven Inc	$6,827,913	9	3%

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All grantees of Community Shelter Board by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$83,370,481	9	24%
Community Housing Network Inc	$42,595,749	9	54%
Homefull	$38,314,932	6	51%
The Homeless Families Foundation	$22,039,995	9	52%
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio	$19,238,930	9	16%
Young Women's Christian Association	$19,224,966	9	25%
National Church Residences	$9,299,221	9	2%
Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana	$8,905,334	9	n/a
Southeast Inc	$7,956,183	9	3%
Maryhaven Inc	$6,827,913	9	3%
Equitas Health Inc	$6,603,145	9	3%
Gladden Community House	$5,274,050	9	58%
Netcare Corporation	$4,418,209	8	5%
Huckleberry House Inc	$4,193,536	9	13%
The Salvation Army	$3,669,297	8	n/a
Columbus Area Integrated Health Services Inc	$1,972,215	2	12%
Access Ohio	$1,924,768	1	n/a
Alvis Inc	$1,285,325	4	1%
Handson Central Ohio Inc	$1,116,330	2	26%
Community Development for All People	$863,966	3	6%
Mount Carmel Health System	$773,729	3	0%
Candid	$492,651	2	1%
Columbus Coalition for the Homeless	$376,973	2	78%
Lower Lights Christian Health Center	$217,455	1	1%
Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio Inc	$43,259	1	0%
St Stephen Community Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Impact Community Action Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Broad Street Presbyterian Church	$20,000	1	n/a
Physicians Care Connection	$20,000	1	0%

Community Shelter Board supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 25.

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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 FoundationOH43.3× affinity22 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 · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Osteopathic Heritage Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation

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 Community Shelter Board

How much does Community Shelter Board give?: Community Shelter Board reported 17 itemized grants totaling $46,839,569, out of $52,574,734 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Community Shelter Board fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (51%), Housing & Shelter (35%), Health (10%).
Who are Community Shelter Board's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio ($83M), Community Housing Network Inc ($43M), Homefull ($38M).
Does Community Shelter Board fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Shelter Board?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc, American Electric Power Foundation.
Where is Community Shelter Board based?: Community Shelter Board is based in OH.