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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11M
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.

Human Services$147MHousing & Shelter$101MHealth$29MPublic Safety & Disaster$8.9MYouth Development$4.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEmployment$43k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $46,839,569, the rows itemized in this filing. The $52,574,734 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,735,165 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

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $195k
  • $250k+16 grants · $47M
$1,148,023
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HOMEFULL: $10.6M → 14%HOMEFULL: $9.1M → 14%HOMEFULL: $7.1M → 14%HOMEFULL: $6.7M → 14%HOMEFULL: $4.6M → 14%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $7.0M → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5.6M → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $3.7M → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $3.5M → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $3.5M → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $3.1M → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $2.4M → 15%YWCA: $2.1M → 15%YWCA: $1.7M → 15%YWCA: $1.5M → 15%YWCA OF COLUMBUS: $1.4M → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 15%YWCA OF COLUMBUS: $1.2M → 15%YWCA OF COLUMBUS: $1.1M → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $687k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $611k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $608k → 15%Alvis House: $349k → 15%ALVIS HOUSE: $343k → 15%YMCA: $11.1M → 15%YMCA: $11.0M → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10.8M → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10.7M → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10.5M → 15%YMCA: $9.1M → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $7.6M → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $4.4M → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $4.3M → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $4.3M → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $844k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $797k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $779k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $740k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $639k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $685k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $646k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $457k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $561k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $528k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $521k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $406k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $465k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $395k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289M · 22 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$289M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83M · revenue +27%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43M · revenue +67% · 54% of their budget
  • H
    HOMEFULL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38M · revenue +118% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • AO
    Access Ohio
    one grant, 2017 · $1.9M
  • LL
    LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $217k · revenue +58%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +23%
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
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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2
National Church Residences At Home Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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3
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

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

Health
4
Christian Care Communities Inc Group Return

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…

Human Services
5
Community Support Services Inc

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,…

Health
6
The Healthcare Connection Inc

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.

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7
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
8
Catholic Charities Corporation

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.

Human Services
9
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services
10
The Cincinnati Health Network Inc

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…

Health
11
Community Shelter Board

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

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12
Columbus House Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 29 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $83,370,481 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIOHOMEFULL: $38,314,932 · Human ServicesHOMEFULLTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $22,039,995 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATIONYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $19,224,966 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION+4 more: $10,772,911 · Human Services+4 moreCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $42,595,749 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING NE…NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES: $9,299,221 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL CHURCH RESI…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $19,238,930 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIA…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OHIO & INDIANA: $8,905,334 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF …THE SALVATION ARMY: $3,669,297 · OtherTHE SALVATION …Columbus Area Integrated Health Services Inc: $1,972,215 · OtherAccess Ohio: $1,924,768 · Other+5 more: $2,307,032 · Other+5 moreSoutheast Inc: $7,956,183 · HealthSoutheast …MARYHAVEN INC: $6,827,913 · HealthMARYHAVEN …Equitas Health Inc: $6,603,145 · HealthEquitas He…NETCARE CORPORATION: $4,418,209 · HealthNETCARE CO…+1 more: $217,455 · HealthCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $863,966 · ReligionCANDID: $492,651 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $43,259 · EmploymentIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$173,723,285Housing & Shelter$51,894,970Other$38,017,576Health$26,022,905Religion$863,966Philanthropy$492,651Employment$43,259Community Improvement$20,000

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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $83,370,481 over 9y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $42,595,749 over 9y, 54% of budgetHOMEFULL: $38,314,932 over 6y, 51% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $22,039,995 over 9y, 52% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $19,238,930 over 9y, 16% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $19,224,966 over 9y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES: $9,299,221 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetSoutheast Inc: $7,956,183 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC: $6,827,913 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetEquitas Health Inc: $6,603,145 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5,274,050 over 9y, 58% of budgetNETCARE CORPORATION: $4,418,209 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $4,193,536 over 9y, 13% of budgetColumbus Area Integrated Health Services Inc: $1,972,215 over 2y, 12% of budgetALVIS INC: $1,285,325 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHANDSON CENTRAL OHIO INC: $1,116,330 over 2y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $863,966 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM: $773,729 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID: $492,651 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $376,973 over 2y, 78% of budgetLOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $217,455 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $43,259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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…American Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…L Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Osteopathic Heritage …Nisource Charitable F…Siemer Family Foundat…Encova Foundation of …Cardinal Health Found…Ohio Capital Impact C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Shelter Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Shelter Board. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 29 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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