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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.

$281M
Granted FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$105M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$825MScience & Tech$241MCrime & Legal$25MHousing & Shelter$19MHuman Services$16MReligion$4.0MEmployment$4.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 96 grants below total $270,791,590, the rows itemized in this filing. The $280,717,637 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,926,047 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $879k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+17 grants · $267M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$500,000
TOLEDO CLASSIC INC$500,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE$440,581
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $7k → 5%NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM: $10k → 15%YWCA (PAID BY NCH): $8k → 15%ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 15%YWCA: $6k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $2.0M → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $1.0M → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $18k → 15%REEB AVENUE CENTER: $45k → 15%REEB AVENUE CENTER: $30k → 15%REEB AVENUE CENTER: $16k → 15%COMMUNITY OF CARING: $115k → 15%NEW DIRECTONS CAREER: $6k → 15%COMMUNITY OF CARING: $68k → 15%FATHERS IN FRONT OF BARS: $39k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS (PAID BY NCH): $208k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $200k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1B · 72 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
34

Total granted

$1.1B
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+5%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & 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

  • PA
    PEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $173M · revenue +40%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +67% · 54% of their budget
  • HR
    HNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown
    6× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +508% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • TK
    The Kids Mental Health Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $1.9M · 70% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR COLUMBUS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
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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3
Columbus Compact Corporation

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

Community Improvement
4
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health
5
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
6
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
7
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
8
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

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

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11
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.

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12
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecting Kids to Meals Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 147 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/110
Grantees still filing
62/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $566,268,291 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $298,069,988 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC+88 more: $70,544,029 · Other+88 morePEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION INC: $173,183,835 · HealthPEDIATRIC ACADEMIC…THE TOLEDO HOSPITAL: $9,800,000 · Health+18 more: $4,381,694 · HealthHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown: $7,173,398 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $2,871,523 · ReligionTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $1,700,000 · Religion+2 more: $40,490 · ReligionFUTURE READY FIVE: $3,408,333 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OF CARING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $357,877 · Human ServicesREEB AVENUE CENTER: $146,000 · Human Services+8 more: $122,110 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $855,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $315,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHIRD FEDERAL FOUNDATION: $91,075 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropySouth Side Thrive Collaborative: $442,317 · Community ImprovementPARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $221,000 · Community ImprovementPYRAMID COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO: $145,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $101,809 · Community ImprovementONE COLUMBUS: $50,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $119,000 · Community Improvement
Other$934,882,308Health$187,365,529Housing & Shelter$7,173,398Religion$4,612,013Human Services$4,034,320Philanthropy$1,451,075Community Improvement$1,079,126

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEDIATRIC ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION INC: $173,183,835 over 8y, 18% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $13,194,937 over 7y, 54% of budgetTHE TOLEDO HOSPITAL: $9,800,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHNHF Realty Collaborative co Luke Brown: $7,173,398 over 6y, 28% of budgetFUTURE READY FIVE: $3,408,333 over 4y, 82% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $2,871,523 over 8y, 12% of budgetThe Kids Mental Health Foundation: $1,881,509 over 1y, 70% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $1,700,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO HOSPITAL COUNCIL: $1,080,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $855,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Physician's Healthcare Network: $612,136 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO CLASSIC INC: $500,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSouth Side Thrive Collaborative: $442,317 over 3y, 100% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF CARING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $357,877 over 3y, 31% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $255,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $246,369 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $221,000 over 8y, 70% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $205,617 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetFINAL THIRD FOUNDATION: $171,350 over 1y, 19% of budgetREEB AVENUE CENTER: $146,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPYRAMID COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO: $145,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $144,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMuskingum Valley Health Center: $118,049 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $113,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $109,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $102,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $101,809 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHIRD FEDERAL FOUNDATION: $91,075 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $90,821 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $87,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB: $78,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NEW ALBANY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFAMOHIO Inc: $56,500 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetHEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO: $56,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASPYR: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS: $45,300 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFATHERS IN FRONT OF BARS: $38,500 over 1y, 55% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $32,092 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Central…Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…L Brands FoundationCardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…Encova Foundation of …Harry C Moores Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…Nisource Charitable F…Columbus Jewish Found…OhioHealth Corporation
United Way of Central Ohio IncOH74.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 147 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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