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Isabelle Ridgway Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Isabelle Ridgway Foundation

To improve the quality of life and the systems that impact aging african americans.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$701kEducation$100kHealth$30kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $140,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $145,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN AMERICAN ALZHEIMER'S AND WELLNESS ASSOCIATION$60,000
AT HOME BY HIGH$45,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE OF COLUMBUS INC$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$950k · 5 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$950k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-22%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $390k · revenue +69%
  • AH
    At Home By High
    4× · 2021–2025 · $310k · revenue +124% · 61% of their budget
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN ALZHEIMERS AND WELLNESS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $90k · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -22%
  • AD
    ALCOHOL DRUG AND MENTAL HEALTH BOARD OF
    one grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
2
Columbus Medical Association Foundation Unlimited

To provide health and wellness services without geographic restriction.

International
3
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health
4
Community Shelter Board

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

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5
Columbus Hospice Inc

Care of the terminally ill

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6
Community Health Professionals Inc

To provide comprehensive, progressive, community-based, health care services to the people of northwest and west central ohio and surrounding areas. community health professionals believes in high quality, compassionate care that promotes…

Health
7
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

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,…

—
8
Columbus Regional Healthcare System

To provide compassionate care, advance healing and inspire hope for our patients and their loved ones.

Health
9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation

Central benefits health care foundation is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation. the purpose of central benefits healthcare foundation is to exclusively support programs that provide preventative health care to indigent…

Philanthropy
11
Columbus Association of Realtors

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,…

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12
Catholic Community Connection

Catholic Community Connection, an organization of Catholic sponsored education, healthcare, human services and senior living ministries, fosters collaboration to respond to the needs of all people within the Diocese of Cleveland.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation; the most unlike its peers is At Home By High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE: $390,325 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSEAt Home By High: $310,000 · OtherAt Home By HighMOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING: $100,000 · OtherMOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING+1 more: $500 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN ALZHEIMERS AND WELLNESS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · HealthAFRICAN AM…CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$800,825Health$90,000Human Services$60,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE: $390,325 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetAt Home By High: $310,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN ALZHEIMERS AND WELLNESS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cardinal Health Found…Columbus FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Cardinal Health FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cardinal Health Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Isabelle Ridgway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isabelle Ridgway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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