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Ohio Community Development Finance Fund
Finance fund builds bridges between resources and the low-income community to improve the quality of life for people.
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 18 grants below total $1,607,014 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,903,013 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,295,999 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $972k
- $250k+1 grant · $540k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION | $540,000 |
| DETROIT SHOREWAY COMMUNITY DEV | $150,000 |
| THE REFUGEE RESPONSE | $146,500 |
| MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING | $100,000 |
| FRANKLINTON RISING | $100,000 |
| SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM | $75,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC | $50,000 |
| OVER-THE-RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSI | $50,000 |
| MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING | $50,000 |
| BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| FRANKLINTON RISING | $31,500 |
| JURISDICTION-WIDE RESIDENT ADV | $20,842 |
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, $887k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 72% 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 +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k 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
- MCMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC6× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +47%
- IAIRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION3× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +49%
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2019–2023 · $213k · revenue +326%
Funded once
- 1W1551 WEST BROAD LLCone grant, 2020 · $250k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OFone grant, 2017 · $145k
- UMURBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -5%
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Community development
1.to restore or replace substandard housing with a supply of decent, affordable, and well-managed housing for individuals and families.2.to facilitate neighborhood growth and health in collaboration with partners, leading to long-term…
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
The franklinton development association is a community development coporation formed to lead the revitalization of the franklinton neighborhhood of columubs ohio through the creation of affordable housing and commercial development for…
Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.
Inner-city housing and economic development focusing on low-income individuals.
Facilitate and invest in developments designed to: create and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods; support working households, seniors and special needs populations.
Building stronger neighborhoods through homeownership, quality rental housing and community building initiatives.
To encourage the development and operation of affordable residential real estate in downtown columbus for women with limited income and own and/or operate affordable residential real estate in downtown columbus for women with limited…
Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Housing Partnership of Greater Springfield and the most unlike its peers is East Liverpool Community Partnership. 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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 97 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 FINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS CDC ↗
- Who funds BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FAMICOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARSONS AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds OVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Homes on The Hill Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation ↗
- Who funds Franklinton Rising ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY CREEK ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gertrude Wood Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARISMA COMMUNITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds GLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST AKRON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NEW HOUSING OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AVONDALE COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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: Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · First Financial Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The CareSource Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Neighborhood Progress Inc · The Huntington 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 Community Development Finance Fund 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.
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.
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