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Ohio Childrens Foundation

To enhance the lives of children by providing grants and technical assistance to child serving organizations

$490k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$960kHuman Services$523kArts & Culture$481kHealth$280kFood & Nutrition$231kPhilanthropy$159kHousing & Shelter$120kCommunity Improvement$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $466,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $490,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,100 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 $10k7 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $415k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cooper Center for Env Learn$25,000
Chillicothe STEM Preschool$25,000
Columbus Early Learning Cntrs$20,000
Home for Families$20,000
Stuarts Opera House$20,000
YMCA of Cincinnati$20,000
Center for Economic Integrity$20,000
Columbus Speech and Hearing$20,000
The Literacy Lab$20,000
YMCA of Columbus$20,000
Heartfelt Tidbits$15,000
Franklin Park Conservatory$15,000
Learning Tree Farm$15,000
Summer Bridge$15,000
Ely Chapman Education Foundat$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA of Findlay: $15k → 9%YMCA of Lancaster & Fairfield: $8k → 9%Oberlin Early Childhood Cente: $20k → 13%Merrick House: $8k → 17%Ohio University PALS: $9k → 22%Merrick House: $8k → 17%Toledo Day Nursery: $8k → 18%The Centers: $8k → 17%Toledo Day Nursery: $6k → 18%Beech Acres: $25k → 16%YMCA of Columbus: $20k → 15%Beech Acres: $12k → 16%Cleveland Sight Center: $10k → 17%Beech Acres: $12k → 16%Beech Acres: $10k → 16%Beech Acres: $10k → 16%Beech Acres: $10k → 16%Santa Maria Comm Svcs: $15k → 16%Beech Acres: $10k → 16%Santa Maria Comm Svcs: $10k → 16%Beech Acres: $10k → 16%Clintonville Comm Res Cntr: $15k → 15%Clintonville Beechwold Resour: $10k → 15%Furniture Bank of Cntrl OH: $25k → 15%Furniture Bank of Cntrl OH: $25k → 15%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $10k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $10k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $10k → 16%Child and Fanily Resources: $20k → 15%Chatholic Charities SW Ohio: $10k → 16%Chatholic Charities SW Ohio: $10k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $10k → 16%Home for Families: $20k → 15%Home for Families: $20k → 15%Home for Families: $12k → 15%Gladden Comm House: $10k → 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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 44 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
31

Total granted

$2.5M
$422k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +71%
  • CE
    COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +112%
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $152k · revenue +94% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • SS
    Strong Start Tucson
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
  • CC
    Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • CF
    CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +17%

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
Cincinnati Early Learning Centers Inc

The organization operates and provides quality childcare in a nurturing and learning environment in multiple locations.

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2
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
3
Child Care Answers of Central Indiana

To improve the well-being, care and education for the whole child.

Human Services
4
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
5
Community Nursery of Cayuga Heights Inc

Community nursery of cayuga heights operates a toddler and preschool program for children 18 months - 5 years of age.

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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
Community Connections for Children Inc

Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.

Human Services
8
Columbus Learning Center Management Corp D/B/a Community Education Coalition

The community education coalition (cec) is a partnership of education, business, and community stakeholders focused on aligning and integrating our community learning system, economic development, and quality of life.

Education
9
Community Coordinated Child Care of Southern Indiana Inc

We believe every child deserves the opportunity to develop into a healthy, contributing citizen. we engage the community and provide a leading voice to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of child care.

Human Services
10
Clayton Early Childhood Center

Clayton early childhood center provides a safe, nurturing, and loving educational environment for children ages six weeks to five years in an intimate, schoolhouse setting.

Human Services
11
Community United Child Care Centers Inc

Our mission is to provide quality child care in a warm and nurturing atmosphere. we offer developmentally appropriate activities in small and large group settings designed to enhance the social, emotional, intellectual, language, and…

Human Services
12
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhood League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tops Inc and Associate Training. 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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesAlternative & Charter Schoo…Regional Arts OrganizationsCommunity Grantmaking Found…Youth Leadership DevelopmentFamily Philanthropic Founda…Christian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Senior & Emerge…Hospital Systems and Health…Union and Employer Benefit …
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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr19%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr19%41%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
12%
5,441/43,694

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

69 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. 69 of the 86 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
41/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS — $165,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERSStrong Start Tucson — $70,000 · OtherStrong Start TucsonCouncil for a Strong America — $65,000 · OtherCouncil for a Strong AmericaCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $52,500 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESThe Learning Tree Farm Inc — $47,500 · OtherCHILLICOTHE CITY SCHOOLS — $45,000 · OtherVoices for Ohios Children — $40,000 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY — $55,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORYECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $48,240 · OtherCISE — $40,000 · Other+25 more — $319,308 · Other+25 moreLITERACY CONNECTS — $165,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $114,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Fo…Ely Chapman Education Foundation — $113,000 · EducationEly Chapman Education Fo…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $67,500 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BAN…THE LITERACY LAB — $60,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABMake Way For Books — $54,000 · EducationMake Way For BooksCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $32,000 · EducationBooks for Classrooms — $26,000 · Education+4 more — $38,500 · Education+4 moreBEECH ACRES — $99,000 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRESTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $52,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAM…FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $50,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK O…Cincinnati Union Bethel — $40,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union…SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMM…CLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesCLINTONVILLE-BEE…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio — $20,000 · Human ServicesOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $20,000 · Human Services+7 more — $79,200 · Human Services+7 moreSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY — $151,700 · Arts & CultureSOUTHWEST CENTE…STUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSTUARTS OPERA H…BALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $54,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET METROPOL…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND RO…OHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureA KID AT ART FOR THE HEART INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER — $132,500 · HealthCOLUMBUS …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $45,175 · HealthCHILDREN'…MIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC — $21,000 · HealthMIAMI COU…KENDAL NORTHERN OHIO — $10,000 · HealthHighland Youth Garden Inc — $70,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $70,000 · Food & NutritionFRANKLINTON FARMS — $43,000 · Food & NutritionUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $68,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $57,500 · PhilanthropyYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $20,000 · PhilanthropyASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$982,548Education$670,000Human Services$459,200Arts & Culture$435,700Health$258,675Food & Nutrition$183,000Philanthropy$160,500

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 budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $165,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS — $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY — $151,700 over 8y, 28% of budgetCOLUMBUS SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER — $132,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $120,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $114,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEly Chapman Education Foundation — $113,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetBEECH ACRES — $99,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHighland Youth Garden Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $68,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $67,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America — $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $57,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $54,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMake Way For Books — $54,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $48,240 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Learning Tree Farm Inc — $47,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $45,175 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLINTON FARMS — $43,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCISE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVoices for Ohios Children — $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBooks for Classrooms — $26,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC — $21,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHILD CARE CHOICESINC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetShawnee State University Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

Elyria Charities IncIngram-White Castle F…Columbus FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…The CareSource Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…United Way of Central…L Brands FoundationCardinal Health Found…United Way of Greater…
Elyria Charities IncOH34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elyria Charities Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati

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 Childrens 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report 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 86 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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