· Private foundation
Kara J Trott Family Foundation Aka Life Leap Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $490k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OHIO KENTUCKY AND INDIAN | $250,000 |
| HEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| O S U CHABAD HOUSE INC | $80,000 |
| CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| VISTA VILLAGE INC | $50,000 |
| GRATITUDE FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| FAMILIES FLOURISH INC | $37,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| I KNOW I CAN | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +8%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
- COChabad of Columbus Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- RJRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
- CSCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
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.
Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.
To promote mental health research in medical developments
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Facilitate and invest in developments designed to: create and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods; support working households, seniors and special needs populations.
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…
Inspiring life journeys
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Heartland High School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Safelite Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Kara J Trott Family Foundation Aka Life Leap 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.
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.