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Ohio Childrens Foundation at a glance

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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $466,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $490,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,100 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

  • 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
The Literacy Lab$20,000
Home for Families$20,000
Center for Economic Integrity$20,000
Columbus Speech and Hearing$20,000
Stuarts Opera House$20,000
YMCA of Cincinnati$20,000
YMCA of Columbus$20,000
Columbus Early Learning Cntrs$20,000
Franklin Park Conservatory$15,000
Heartfelt Tidbits$15,000
Ely Chapman Education Foundat$15,000
Santa Maria Comm Svcs$15,000
YMCA of Findlay$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $10k → 16%Chatholic Charities SW Ohio: $10k → 16%Chatholic Charities SW Ohio: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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

  • CE
    COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +112%
  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +71%
  • 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%
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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhood League Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
41/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $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 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 budgetCOLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $165,000 over 7y, 1.9% 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 budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetVoices for Ohios Children: $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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 budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE CHOICESINC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetShawnee State University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 86 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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