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M I Homes Foundation at a glance

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M I Homes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.2MPhilanthropy$665kHealth$608kHousing & Shelter$545kFood & Nutrition$283kHuman Services$248kArts & Culture$239kReligion$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $566k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500,000
AMERICAS CHARITIES$206,100
HOMEPORT$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,000
HARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC$50,000
MIDOHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$50,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO$35,000
CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL$35,000
LIFETOWN$25,000
OHIO GOVERNORS RESIDENCE & OFFICE FOUNDATION$25,000
HOUSING FIRST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
MASON DEERFIELD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,114
OSUCCC JAMES$20,000
WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $5k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $5k → 15%THE HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%THE HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%THE HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
OH
PA
VA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 32 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
27

Total granted

$4.9M
$742k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-8%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $717k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
  • KC
    KIPP COLUMBUS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
  • CH
    COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +212%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • CU
    CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -8%
  • WC
    WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -65%
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
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
4
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
5
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

—
6
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

—
7
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
8
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
9
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

—
10
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
12
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Fund of Central Ohio; the most unlike its peers is Mason Youth Organization. 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

38 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. 38 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMid-Ohio Foodbank: $270,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $250,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIOHARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOLAMERICA'S CHARITIES: $233,600 · OtherAMERICA'S CHARITIESCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $162,000 · OtherCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · Other+43 more: $946,514 · Other+43 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,235,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONKIPP COLUMBUS: $1,000,000 · EducationKIPP COLUMBUSCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationCAPITAL UNIVERSITY+5 more: $70,000 · EducationTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $360,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW ALB…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $285,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $450,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureFLYING HORSE FARMS: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHEINZERLING COMMUNITY: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,712,114Education$2,555,000Philanthropy$655,000Housing & Shelter$460,000Arts & Culture$211,000Recreation & Sports$95,000Human Services$55,000

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,235,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP COLUMBUS: $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $450,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $285,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $270,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES: $233,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHEINZERLING COMMUNITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMason Youth Organization: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOhio Governor's Residence and Office Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $16,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBONZY CHARITIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERVILLE CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARBURN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget5KforJK Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mason Youth Organization ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Governor's Residence and Office Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc ↗

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.

L Brands FoundationColumbus FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Ingram-White Castle F…Columbus Jewish Found…United Way of Central…Siemer Family Foundat…Harry C Moores Founda…Safelite FoundationEncova Foundation of …Cardinal Health Found…Nisource Charitable F…
L Brands FoundationOH46.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: L Brands Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Safelite Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health Foundation · Nisource Charitable 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 M I Homes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M I Homes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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

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How do I get to M I Homes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to M I Homes 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 72 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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