· Private foundation
Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of GOOD SHEPHERD FDN OF OHIO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $656k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFETOWN COLUMBUS aka OSU CHABAD HOUSE | $185,000 |
| I AM BOUNDLESS INC | $130,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC | $100,000 |
| BLOSSOM HILL INC | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| UCP OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $50,555 |
| LOTT INDUSTRIES INC | $50,000 |
| HEINZERLING COMMUNITY | $48,188 |
| GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES | $35,000 |
| NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $30,000 |
| BITTERSWEET FARMS INC | $30,000 |
| CRSI - CHAMPAIGN RESIDENTIAL SERVICES | $27,000 |
| NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC | $25,000 |
| ROSE-MARY REHABILITATION & EDUCATION CTR | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $865k · revenue +10%
- IAI AM BOUNDLESS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $447k · revenue +141%
- BHBLOSSOM HILL INC4× · 2020–2025 · $319k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- OCOSU CHABAD HOUSE aka LIFETOWN COLUMBUSone grant, 2023 · $185k
- SCSCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CICHOICES IN COMMUNITY LIVING INCone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +1%
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.
To establish places of residence for adults who are developmentally disabled so as to enable them to have available an environment which is condusive to their becoming and remaining productive members in society.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To create and sustain housing and other community resources that provide affordability, accessibility and independence to those in need.
Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.
Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…
Provide residential, in-home, and community-based choices for people with disabilities.
Build rehabilitation industries, inc. dba buildability ("build"), provides services and support for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, assisting them to achieve greater independence and inclusion in their communities.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
To provide people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to experience life to its fullest.
Provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities in our service area
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairhaven Foundation. 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 49 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 65 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOSSOM HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOINONIA HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
- Who funds LOTT INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE GROW INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEAVER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE GRADY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BELCO WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S VILLA INC ↗
- Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PRODUCTION SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds PASSION WORKS ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Good Works Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
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: Community Fund Management Foundation Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Ohio Community Pooled Annuity Trust · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Lott-Conlon Foundation Pfdn · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · Harry C Moores 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 Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio 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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