How much did HONDA OF AMERICA FOUNDATION grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of HONDA OF AMERICA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

seriespreventiontechnologyleadershipwholeworksexpansion

2019

shelterunionrebuildingpoverty

2020

afterschoolrebuildingmealfresh

2021

hungerhealthwellnesscolumbusbreaking cyclescycles homelessnesshomelessness poverty

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k5 grants · $27k
$10k–50k22 grants · $409k
$50k–250k5 grants · $280k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

OHIO HISPANIC COALITION$60,000
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD$60,000
CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE$60,000
MID OHIO FOODBANK$50,000
KALEIDOSCOPE$50,000
LIFECARE ALLIANCE$40,000
INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK$25,000
DAYBREAK INC$25,000
THE FOODBANK INC$25,000
MARYHAVEN INC$24,000
ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$20,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$20,000
CARING KITCHEN INC$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 35 repeat orgs$816k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$713k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+23%

Still filing today

69%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

CS
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
5× · 2017–2021 · $330k · revenue +91%
CH
CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE
4× · 2017–2021 · $275k · revenue +100%
MO
MID OHIO FOODBANK
5× · 2017–2021 · $225k · revenue +39%

Funded once

TP
TURNING POINT
one grant, 2017 · $70k
CU
COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +66%
CA
COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +26%

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.

Pathways Counseling Center Inc

Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.

Education

United Way of Greater Lima Inc

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

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Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.

Human Services

Darke County Recovery Services Inc

Prevention of drug & alcohol abuse and provide mental health services.

Health

Pathways of Central Ohio Inc

Pathways is the gateway to services which empower the community to achieve success.

Health

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.

Human Services

Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of

Counseling and social services for the greater cincinnati, northern kentucky area

Health

Ohio Hills Health Services

Delivery of health care to the local community and surrounding areas

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Access Healthcolumbus Dba Healthcare

To improve the quality, delivery, and value of healthcare and the overall health for all people in the columbus region

Health

Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services

Southeastern Ohio Center for

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Shelter Board and the most unlike its peers is Lifecare Alliance. 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.

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 37 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/55

the rest of the field

10%

1,307/12,832

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.

05the grantee network

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/54

Grantees still filing

45/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,167,870Human Services$641,129Food & Nutrition$355,000Health$229,800Youth Development$113,000Religion$105,000Recreation & Sports$103,208

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.

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.

L Brands FoundationOH43.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Siemer Family Foundation · Safelite Autoglass Foundation Amended · The Dayton Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company

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 organisation HONDA OF AMERICA 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SIMON KENTON PATHFINDERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311575844 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SIMON KENTON PATHFINDERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Honda of America Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Honda of America Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HONDA OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Honda of America Foundation?

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HONDA OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Honda of America Foundation?

More from the funding graph