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Ohio Children's Alliance

Fostering a brighter tomorrow for Ohio's children and families through advocacy, innovation, and collaboration with health and human service organizations.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$462k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$3.0MHealth$2.7MYouth Development$1.6MCrime & Legal$434kHousing & Shelter$109kEducation$89kEmployment$50kReligion$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $1,844,697 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,690,327 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $845,630 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $446k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $925k
  • $250k+1 grant · $462k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYAP$461,686
Cadence Care Network (v)$201,874
Sojourners Care Network$104,689
Beech Brook$101,139
Buckeye Ranch$79,712
Bellefaire Jewish Childrens Bureau$75,000
Adriel School Inc$71,215
New Path$69,475
Focus on Youth Inc$57,697
Agape for Youth$56,058
Pathway$55,426
Northeast Ohio Adoption Services$52,332
SAFY of Ohio$46,002
UMCH Family Services$44,752
HOPE Campus$40,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFY of Ohio: $46k → 13%Maries House of Hope Inc: $65k → 14%UMCH Family Services: $45k → 15%Integrated Services for Behavioral Health: $345k → 15%Talbert House-Youth Peer Support: $16k → 16%Northeast Ohio Adoption Services: $52k → 16%Sojourners Care Network: $109k → 21%SAFY of Ohio: $375k → 15%NYAP: $594k → 15%Focus on Youth Inc: $58k → 12%Caring For Kids: $23k → 13%SAFY of Ohio: $34k → 13%Integrated Services for Behavioral Health: $28k → 15%Best Point: $141k → 16%Northeast Ohio Adoption Services: $11k → 16%Sojourners Care Network: $105k → 21%NYAP: $462k → 15%Focus on Youth (v): $24k → 12%Best Point: $92k → 16%Adopt America Network (v): $28k → 18%Sojourners Care Network: $16k → 21%NYAP: $372k → 15%Focus on Youth Inc: $18k → 12%The Children's Home of Cincinnati: $37k → 16%Cadence Care Network (v): $202k → 16%Agape for Youth: $56k → 14%The Children's Home of Cincinnati: $23k → 16%Cadence Care Network: $98k → 16%Agape for Youth: $28k → 14%Cadence Care Network (v): $50k → 16%Agape for Youth: $12k → 14%BEECH ACRES: $26k → 16%I Am Boundless: $16k → 15%New Path: $57k → 16%Youth Advocate Services: $58k → 15%New Path: $48k → 16%The Buckeye Ranch Inc: $110k → 15%New Path: $69k → 16%Best Point: $18k → 17%Buckeye Ranch: $80k → 15%Lighthouse Youth & Family Services: $57k → 16%HOPE Campus: $40k → 17%Buckeye Ranch: $49k → 15%Lighthouse Youth & Family Services: $57k → 16%Centers for Families & Children: $25k → 17%Buckeye Ranch-: $38k → 15%Lighthouse Youth & Family Services: $14k → 16%NECCO & Associate: $37k → 16%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 99% of Ohio Children's Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ohio Children's Alliancelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 34 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
35

Total granted

$7.3M
$915k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+3%

Still filing today

94%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • NY
    NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +32%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $516k · revenue +57%
  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $456k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $319k
  • LC
    Lighthouse Communications LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $89k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $76k

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
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
2
House of New Hope Inc

It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…

Human Services
3
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services
4
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
5
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
6
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
7
Citrus Health Network Inc

To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…

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8
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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9
Childrens Center of Wayne County Inc

The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.

Human Services
10
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
11
Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc

A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.

Human Services
12
New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Pride of Northeast Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amazing Grace Treatment Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr20%38%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
11%
5,911/52,058

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.

05the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
37/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC — $1,427,528 · Human ServicesNATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INCSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC — $455,599 · Human ServicesSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INCINTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $372,834 · Human ServicesINTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCADENCE CARE NETWORK — $349,565 · Human ServicesCADENCE CARE NETWORKThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $311,622 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati OhioTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC — $285,020 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INCSOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK — $229,711 · Human Services+19 more — $1,002,323 · Human Services+19 morePATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN — $369,238 · HealthPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILD…EASTWAY CORPORATION — $307,813 · HealthEASTWAY CORPORATIONNationwide Children's Hospital Inc — $235,784 · HealthNationwide Children's Ho…BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU — $213,400 · HealthBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDR…Beech Brook — $163,091 · HealthBeech BrookSOUTH COMMUNITY INC — $155,363 · HealthSOUTH COMMUNITY INCHARBOR INC — $145,861 · HealthHARBOR INCOhioGuidestone — $109,561 · HealthOhioGuidestone+4 more — $142,042 · Health+4 moreST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES — $515,592 · OtherST VINCENT FAMILY S…Individual grant recipient — $319,451 · OtherIndividual grant re…Psycare Inc — $105,577 · OtherPsycare IncLighthouse Communications LLC — $88,787 · OtherLighthouse Communic…Individual grant recipient — $76,475 · OtherIndividual grant re…PRESSLEY RIDGE — $56,659 · OtherQuality Moments — $49,649 · Other+19 more — $197,470 · Other+19 moreTHE VILLAGE NETWORK — $434,083 · Crime & LegalAdriel School Inc — $145,563 · EducationPathways Counseling Center Inc — $10,000 · EducationTHE MARSH FOUNDATION — $9,504 · Education+7 more — $38,500 · EducationTHE VIAQUEST FOUNDATION — $56,299 · PhilanthropyColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc — $5,500 · PhilanthropyTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC — $6,250 · Environment
Human Services$4,434,202Health$1,842,153Other$1,409,660Crime & Legal$434,083Education$203,567Philanthropy$61,799Environment$6,250

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 budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC — $1,427,528 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES — $515,592 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC — $455,599 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK — $434,083 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $372,834 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN — $369,238 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCADENCE CARE NETWORK — $349,565 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $311,622 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEASTWAY CORPORATION — $307,813 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC — $285,020 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc — $235,784 over 2y, 31% of budgetSOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK — $229,711 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU — $213,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBeech Brook — $163,091 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH COMMUNITY INC — $155,363 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARBOR INC — $145,861 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAdriel School Inc — $145,563 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $136,471 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSJO KIDS INC — $117,571 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOhioGuidestone — $109,561 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC — $100,544 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAGAPE FOR YOUTH INC — $96,436 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES — $72,188 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMARIE'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $61,023 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE SERVICES — $58,002 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NEW PATH INC — $56,806 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE — $56,659 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIAQUEST FOUNDATION — $56,299 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSoutheast Inc — $50,674 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENA INC — $37,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PRIDE OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC — $34,147 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTER CARE INC — $33,044 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC — $32,094 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEECH ACRES — $26,214 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS HEALTH — $24,177 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS INC — $23,041 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC — $16,636 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE — $15,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI AM BOUNDLESS INC — $15,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOESTERLEN - SERVICES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC — $13,321 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathways Counseling Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARSH FOUNDATION — $9,504 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISAIAH'S PLACE 1 — $5,775 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ohio Child Care Resou…The Cleveland Foundat…Columbus FoundationDave Thomas Foundatio…Most Valuable Kids of…Akron Community Found…The Dayton FoundationHealthpath Foundation…Gpd Group Employees F…Ticket to Dream Found…Premier Bank Foundati…Tickets for Kids Foun…
Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral AssociationOH36.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · The Cleveland Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption · Most Valuable Kids of Greater Cincinnati · Akron Community Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc · Ticket to Dream Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Tickets for Kids Foundation

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 Ohio Children's Alliance 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trout Lake Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report 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

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.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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