· Private foundation
Franklin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $32,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $14,000 |
| DELAWARE ARTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS | $2,000 |
| FRANKLIN HOUSE | $1,200 |
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 (FY18–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- GSGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +2%
- BFBIRDIES FOR BUDDIES2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +45%
- EUELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TKTHE KISKI FUNDone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- EHEquitas Health Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $61k · revenue +137%
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To promote the highest quality of life, area agency on aging 3 will provide access to a network of services, education, and advocacy as the region's aging and disability resource expert.
To offer a broad range of community based and Home-Care Services designed to enable older adults to remain independent and active by living healthy lives.
Assisting individuals to maintain independence and personal choice by providing resource options and services
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Aging services to senior citizens, senior center operations, senior trips, senior health promotions, nutritional programs, emergency assistance, and numerous senior activities.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
To help the elderly maintain their health and independence as long as possible.
To promote independence, wellness and community for older adults in an active and friendly continuing-care environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Evans Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 60 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.
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- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Franklinton Rising ↗
- Who funds George & Raymond Frank Foundation ↗
- Who funds Evans Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds ELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds SHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAIN CITY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR DREAM CENTER ↗
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 · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Franklin Foundation Inc 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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