· Private foundation
David and Mindy Gross Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $34,700 |
| THE JACK ELTON SNYDER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| MID-OHIO FOODBANK | $2,500 |
| THE WELLINGTON SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION CENTRAL OH CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY | $1,000 |
| FISH OF SANCAP | $1,000 |
| NNEMAP | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO | $1,000 |
| DING - DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE ST STEPHENS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HEINZERLING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 2 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
- CCCOLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY3× · 2022–2025 · $86k · revenue +6%
- WSWELLINGTON SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +8%
- CSCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +265%
Funded once
- USUA SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CCCSCC CAMERON MITCHELL HALLone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CACOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -6%
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.
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…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
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.
The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup…
Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NNEMAP INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLONY CATS ↗
- Who funds FEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
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 · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Safelite Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Thomas R Gross Family Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus
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 David and Mindy Gross Family Foundation 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.
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