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Ohio State Bar Foundation
The OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION is a nonprofit corporation under ohio law, organized for educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $679k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAW AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $160,000 |
| OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION | $128,500 |
| SUMMER WORK EXPERIENCE IN LAW INC | $100,000 |
| OHIO VICTIM WITNESS ASSOCIATION | $66,111 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $63,832 |
| PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO | $60,145 |
| OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT FOR JUSTIC | $50,000 |
| HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO | $35,000 |
| MID-OHIO PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES INC | $35,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $35,000 |
| DICK & JANE PROJECT | $30,000 |
| EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| OHIO LEGAL HELP | $25,000 |
| PORTAGE COUNTY JUVENILE COURT | $24,000 |
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, $943k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 27 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- LALaw and Leadership Institute LLC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
- TOTHE OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +0% · 35% of their budget
- OLOHIO LEGAL HELP5× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- CCCUYAHOGA COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURTone grant, 2022 · $133k
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%- ABAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +37%
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.
The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To provide legal representation to indigent persons for the citizens of Summit County, Ohio.
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.
To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.
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.
The mission of the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program, Inc is to inform members of the Bar concerning alcoholism, chemical dependency, and mental illness, and to provide services through education, intervention, advocacy and support for those…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The Ohio Womens Alliance is a statewide membership of grassroots leaders, organizers, community builders and activists creating a better Ohio for all through a reproductive justice lens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence and the most unlike its peers is Judah Performing Arts Company. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 93 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 Law and Leadership Institute LLC ↗
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- Who funds LEGAL WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN ↗
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: The George Gund Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ohio Access to Justice Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Cincinnati Bar Foundation · Women's Fund of Central Ohio · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care 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 State Bar 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.
- The Florida Bar Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.