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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return
Nationwide children's hospital's mission is committed to best outcomes and health equity for all children, ensuring every child has access to the best care regardless of their ability to pay.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 96 grants below total $270,791,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $280,717,637 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,926,047 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 $10k15 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $879k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+17 grants · $267M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $105,167,509 |
| RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NCH | $60,787,256 |
| RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NCH | $40,931,824 |
| PEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION | $31,800,644 |
| PROMEDICA TOLEDO HOSPITAL | $9,800,000 |
| HNHF REALTY COLLABORATION | $5,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY AT NCH | $3,535,111 |
| CHILDREN'S RADIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE INC | $2,635,876 |
| CHILDREN'S SURGICAL ASSOCIATES | $2,366,305 |
| PEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION | $1,238,550 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY AT NCH | $1,207,978 |
| NCH CHILD ASSESSMENT CENTER | $781,142 |
| TOLEDO CLASSIC INC | $500,000 |
| MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE | $440,581 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 38 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- PAPEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $173M · revenue +40%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +67% · 54% of their budget
- HRHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown6× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +508% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- TKThe Kids Mental Health Foundationone grant, 2023 · $1.9M · 70% of their budget
- NCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- CFCITIZENS FOR COLUMBUSone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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.
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
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,…
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
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…
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
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 Third Federal Foundation. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
110 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. 110 of the 147 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 PEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown ↗
- Who funds FUTURE READY FIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds The Kids Mental Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO HOSPITAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Physician's Healthcare Network ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds South Side Thrive Collaborative ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF CARING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REEB AVENUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PYRAMID COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Muskingum Valley Health Center ↗
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: United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation
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 Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.