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Community Shelter Board
The COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
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 17 grants below total $46,839,569 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,574,734 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,735,165 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
- $50k–250k1 grant · $195k
- $250k+16 grants · $47M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEFULL | $10,610,036 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO | $10,465,411 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO | $5,631,013 |
| HOME FOR FAMILIES | $4,320,650 |
| YWCA COLUMBUS | $3,748,148 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC | $2,693,693 |
| SOUTHEAST INC | $1,631,598 |
| NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES | $1,356,674 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OHIO AND INDIANA | $1,148,023 |
| EQUITAS HEALTH | $1,135,001 |
| MARYHAVEN INC | $1,068,044 |
| GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE | $778,821 |
| NETCARE ACCESS | $725,253 |
| HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE | $646,054 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE | $362,715 |
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, $173.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $83M · revenue +27%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43M · revenue +67% · 54% of their budget
- HHOMEFULL6× · 2020–2025 · $38M · revenue +118% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- AOAccess Ohioone grant, 2017 · $1.9M
- LLLOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $217k · revenue +58%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INCone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +24%
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.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
The cincnnati health network (chn) is a grantee for the health care for the homeless program in the greater cincinnati area and operates as a federally qualified health center. the chn is also the ryan white part c grantee and provides…
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Candid. 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 58 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 29 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFULL ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES ↗
- Who funds Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Equitas Health Inc ↗
- Who funds GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NETCARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Area Integrated Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDSON CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION ↗
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 · 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
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 Shelter Board 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.