· Public charity
Ingram-White Castle Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to support charitable organizations which benefit the community.
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.
The 121 grants below total $4,207,664 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,319,914 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,250 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 $10k8 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I AM BOUNDLESS | $175,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO | $150,000 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $139,810 |
| LOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES | $120,000 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS OHIO | $110,000 |
| CITY YEAR COLUMBUS | $105,000 |
| DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES | $105,000 |
| HOMEPORT | $100,000 |
| UNITED SCHOOLS NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $90,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL OHIO | $90,000 |
| YWCA COLUMBUS | $90,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD | $90,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $85,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
185 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k 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
- LALIFECARE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $977k · revenue +81%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO6× · 2017–2024 · $523k · revenue +27%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $398k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TOTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +38%
- TBTHE BOUNDLESS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +20%
- SNSHORT NORTH ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +172%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
Students will achieve individually established academic goals so they are prepared for their next level of learning and will graduate prepared for the college of their choice and workforce. each student is highly educated, prepared for…
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Inspiring life journeys
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bright New Leaders for Ohio Schools and the most unlike its peers is A Tribe for Jazz. 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
240 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. 240 of the 300 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OHIO DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW & POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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: Siemer Family Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Columbus Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus
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 Ingram-White Castle 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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