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Kidd Family Foundation at a glance

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Kidd Family Foundation

The KIDD FAMILY FOUNDATION is a supporting organization of community foundations, inc.

$98k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Kidd Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Columbus Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Kidd Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $90k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
1
’18
1
’19
4
’20
5
’21
5
’22
3
’23
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$471kEducation$140kEmployment$48kHealth$25kReligion$10kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$3k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $90,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $98,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE$25,000
JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF DD$15,000
WARRIORS 4 CHRIST RECOVERY MINISTRIES$15,000
PARENT BOOSTER USA - JHS DIAMOND CLUB$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $476k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EASTERSEALS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST: $5k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $280k → 18%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $58k → 18%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $56k → 18%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $25k → 18%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $25k → 18%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $15k → 18%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $12k → 18%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$619k · 3 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$619k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+82%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • JA
    JACKSON AREA FAMILY ACTIVITIES CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $471k · revenue +41% · 44% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • JI
    J-Vac Industries Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $48k

Funded once

  • GJ
    GALLA JACKSON VINTON JVSD
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HARBOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • CU
    CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Greater Marion Community Area New Development-Can Do

Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county

Community Improvement
3
Agriculteral Extension Camps Inc

4-h camp ohio is a year round resident camp specializing in youth education. the camp serves 13 counties of 4-h groups & 1 state leadership camp. school & outdoor ed groups are the mainstay of the business from march through may & sept…

Youth Development
4
One Columbus Foundation

The foundation's mission is to position the central ohio region (which includes licking, fairfield, pickaway, madison, union, delaware and morrow counties) to become a growing economy and a leader in economic development.

Community Improvement
5
Columbus Early Learning Centers

Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…

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6
Ohio County Community Foundation Inc

The foundation was organized to provide responsible stewardship of donated gifts to provide leadership in addressing community issues and to make grants in the fields of community service, education, health, environment and the arts in the…

Philanthropy
7
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

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

Human Services
8
Defiance College

Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.

Education
9
Friendship Village of Columbus Ohio Inc

To promote independence, wellness and community for older adults in an active and friendly continuing-care environment.

Human Services
10
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
11
Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.

—
12
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jackson County Economic Development Partnership. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC: $2,239,521 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC+2 more: $10,937 · PhilanthropyJACKSON AREA FAMILY ACTIVITIES CENTER: $470,932 · Human ServicesJACKSON AREA FAMIL…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE: $100,000 · EducationJ-Vac Industries Inc: $47,758 · EmploymentGALLA JACKSON VINTON JVSD: $25,000 · OtherCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherPARENT BOOSTER USA INC: $10,000 · OtherWARRIORS 4 CHRIST RECOVERY MINISTRIES: $15,000 · HealthPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $10,000 · HealthSOUTHERN HILLS ARTS COUNCIL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$2,250,458Human Services$475,932Education$100,000Employment$47,758Other$45,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC: $2,239,521 over 1y, 33% of budgetJACKSON AREA FAMILY ACTIVITIES CENTER: $470,932 over 7y, 44% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIORS 4 CHRIST RECOVERY MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HILLS ARTS COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $5,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERSEALS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundations…Columbus FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundations IncOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundations Inc · Columbus Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kidd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kidd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kidd Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kidd Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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