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Greer Foundation

The GREER FOUNDATION is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation.

$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$330kHousing & Shelter$285kPhilanthropy$236kEducation$201kCivil Rights$155kHuman Services$140kHealth$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $217,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAR HOUSE$50,000
HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC$50,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$25,000
COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GREATER COMMON GOOD$10,000
ZORA'S HOUSE$10,000
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE$10,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$10,000
FIRST TEE NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
RECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION$10,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $476k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHERN: $11k → 11%YWCA COLUMBUS: $100k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $15k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $5k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $5k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $30k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $20k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 19 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

79%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsCivil RightsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
  • HH
    HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +91%
  • SH
    STAR HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +306%

Funded once

  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • IK
    I KNOW I CANgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
Community Shelter Board

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

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4
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
5
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
6
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
7
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
8
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
11
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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12
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Past 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless Services & HousingWomen's Advocacy Organizati…Performing Arts Organizatio…Public Charter SchoolsOhio Industry Associations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr15%48%35–55yr19%30%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
12%
2,780/22,476

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mid-Ohio Foodbank — $1,032,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank+17 more — $224,300 · Other+17 moreSTAR HOUSE — $275,000 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSECOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $246,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc — $60,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus State Community…+1 more — $4,000 · PhilanthropyHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $320,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE I…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $110,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRIS…NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $21,000 · Human ServicesLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc — $145,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF CASA OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO — $14,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $500 · Civil RightsRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $57,965 · Recreation & SportsFLYING HORSE FARMS — $17,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER COLUMBUS SPORTS FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $55,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $20,000 · Food & NutritionPAST FOUNDATION — $52,000 · Arts & CultureLESBIANS BENEFITTING THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureZORA'S HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,256,300Philanthropy$585,000Human Services$476,000Civil Rights$159,500Recreation & Sports$96,465Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$72,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $1,032,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $320,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $275,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $246,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc — $145,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $57,965 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAST FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF OHIO — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI KNOW I CAN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEquitas Health Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASA OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO — $14,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Common Good — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZORA'S HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS SPORTS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationL Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…American Electric Pow…United Way of Central…Encova Foundation of …Siemer Family Foundat…Nisource Charitable F…Harry C Moores Founda…Cardinal Health Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The William H Davis D…
Columbus FoundationOH47.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Siemer Family Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis 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 Greer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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