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Meuse Family Foundation

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

$686k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$3.9MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$669kCommunity Improvement$592kHealth$436kReligion$408kHousing & Shelter$190kYouth Development$138kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $648,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $686,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,500 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–50k13 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$200,000
STEPHEN J WAMPLER FOUNDATION INC$150,000
KENYA WORKS INC$60,000
I KNOW I CAN$40,000
CENTER OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (COSI)$32,500
LIFETOWN COLUMBUS$25,000
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (CAPA)$21,000
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,000
MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC$20,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$15,000
COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$15,000
KING ARTS COMPLEX$10,000
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$10,000
FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%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
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

MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
NM
DC
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.
$6.3M · 42 repeat orgs$826k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
24

Total granted

$6.3M
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • John Carroll University
    3× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
  • CA
    COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +66%
  • MI
    MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · 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%
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
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

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

Arts & Culture
2
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
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
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
6
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
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,…

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8
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
9
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
10
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
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
Columbus Compact Corporation

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

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pedal with Pete Inc. 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

57 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. 57 of the 71 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $165,000 · OtherI KNOW I CANST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $150,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP COLUMBUS: $150,000 · OtherDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $112,500 · Other+30 more: $586,850 · Other+30 moreJohn Carroll University: $1,510,000 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityColumbus School for Girls: $85,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · Education+6 more: $223,000 · Education+6 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $1,030,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRA…COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $426,500 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $636,715 · ReligionTHE FOUNDA…Spirituality Network: $72,500 · ReligionSpirituali…Chabad of Columbus Inc: $35,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $236,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS …MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-…FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $57,500 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN …LANCASTER FESTIVAL INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER…COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $42,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS …COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $49,200 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE 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$2,866,350Education$1,893,000Philanthropy$1,476,500Religion$749,215Arts & Culture$660,200Community Improvement$342,500Housing & Shelter$190,000

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 budgetJohn Carroll University: $1,510,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $1,030,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $636,715 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $426,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP: $330,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $236,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $180,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetI KNOW I CAN: $165,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLEADERSHIP COLUMBUS: $150,000 over 3y, 11% 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: $90,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetColumbus School for Girls: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirituality Network: $72,500 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetRELA: $62,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $57,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Special Word: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
  • Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DREAMS ON HORSEBACK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spirituality Network ↗
  • Who funds RELA ↗
  • Who funds KENYA WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds THE OPERA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
  • Who funds ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO 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.

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

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 Meuse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meuse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 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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