· Public charity
Hinson Family Trust
See schedule o.the purpose of the HINSON FAMILY TRUST is to provide financial support for organizations whose mission is to improve the quality of life and opportunity for men, women and children in the community.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Hinson Family Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The New Albany Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Hinson Family Trust named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $117k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k18 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $39,286 |
| PELOTONIA | $15,000 |
| ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL | $14,775 |
| BESA COMMUNITY INC | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOODBANK DBA MID-OHIO FOOD | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY | $3,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BALLET METROPOLITAN INC DBA BALLETMET | $2,500 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA | $2,350 |
| YWCA COLUMBUS | $2,200 |
| ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS 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 (FY19–20, $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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $343k · revenue +36%
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank6× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +37%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY6× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- CZCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -1%
- CLCOLUMBUS LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEEone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -97%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
We are physicians and other experts improving the health of caregivers, patients and communities.
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.
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,…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Cots is a group of physicians, healthcare professionals, and other experts working together to improve the health and safety of our communities.
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.
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,…
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shadoart Productions Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 38 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BESA COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Ride 2 Recovery dba Project Hero ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds Ohio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds JEANNE B MCCOY COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHADOART PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Equitas Health Inc ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EATING DISORDERS AND PSYC ↗
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: L Brands Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · OhioHealth Corporation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Greater Columbus Arts Council
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 Hinson Family Trust 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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