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Meuse Family Foundation

The MEUSE FAMILY FOUNDATION is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.9MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$669kCommunity Improvement$592kHealth$436kReligion$408kHousing & Shelter$190kYouth Development$138kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $1,008,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,039,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,500 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$500,000
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (CAPA)$110,000
VISTA VILLAGE INC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$100,000
LEADERSHIP COLUMBUS$75,000
CENTER OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (COSI)$25,000
MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC$20,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$15,000
OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$10,000
LIFETOWN COLUMBUS$10,000
FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$10,000
LSS CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$10,000
THE SPIRITUALITY NETWORK INC$7,500
BALLETMET$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AAEP FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%LSS CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 15%PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS: $1k → 15%PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS: $500 → 15%PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 40 repeat orgs$651k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$5.8M
$606k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • John Carroll University
    2× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
  • CA
    COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +66%
  • MI
    MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • MS
    MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +19%
  • HR
    HNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Browngraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +199%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Columbus College of Art & Design

Ccad fosters a diverse community that educates students so they can unleash their creative power to shape culture and commerce.

Education
2
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
3
Capital University

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

Education
4
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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5
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
The Columbus Partnership

Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.

Community Improvement
7
Columbus Compact Corporation

Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.

Community Improvement
8
The Columbus Academy

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.

Education
9
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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10
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,…

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11
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
12
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is My Special Word. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Healthcare Professional Ass…Community Support ServicesYouth Sports LeaguesSenior Residential CareCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth and Family Support Se…Community Foundations & Gra…Veterans Fraternal Organiza…Faith-Based Social ServicesColumbus Charter Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr24%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%4%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr24%63%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/69
the rest of the field
12%
1,264/10,282

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS — $1,065,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUSNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $277,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCMISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE — $250,000 · OtherMISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOST…I KNOW I CAN — $125,000 · OtherST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $110,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP COLUMBUS — $150,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP COLUMBUSDREAMS ON HORSEBACK — $112,500 · Other+30 more — $556,850 · Other+30 moreJohn Carroll University — $1,500,000 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationColumbus School for Girls — $70,000 · Education+5 more — $163,000 · Education+5 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $830,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENT…COLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $411,500 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIO…+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS — $636,715 · ReligionTHE FOUNDA…Spirituality Network — $62,500 · ReligionSpirituali…+2 more — $15,000 · ReligionCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $215,000 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $160,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER FESTIVAL INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $39,200 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP — $330,000 · Community ImprovementUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Community ImprovementVISTA VILLAGE INC — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,646,350Education$1,808,000Philanthropy$1,261,500Religion$714,215Arts & Culture$566,700Community Improvement$342,500Housing & Shelter$190,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJohn Carroll University — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $830,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS — $636,715 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $411,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP — $330,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $215,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $160,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLEADERSHIP COLUMBUS — $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetI KNOW I CAN — $125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC — $120,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetDREAMS ON HORSEBACK — $112,500 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY — $80,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus School for Girls — $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSpirituality Network — $62,500 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetRELA — $62,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER FESTIVAL INC — $45,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $20,850 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPedal with Pete Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetPBJ CONNECTIONS JEDLICKA — $15,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Special Word — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…L Brands FoundationUnited Way of Central…Columbus Jewish Found…Margaret and Robert W…Cardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…Siemer Family Foundat…Harry C Moores Founda…Encova Foundation of …Battelle Memorial Ins…
Columbus FoundationOH68.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Battelle Memorial Institute

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 Meuse Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Meuse Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Meuse 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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