· Public charity
Ohio State Council Knights of Columbus
Established to provide charitable, religious, and educational programs available to everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $425,097 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $780,859 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $355,762 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
- $250k+1 grant · $298k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO CHARITY FOUNDATION INC | $297,683 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO | $103,469 |
| ARC OF OHIO IN MERCER COUNTY | $9,931 |
| MARION COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES | $7,268 |
| THE ARC OF OHIO | $6,746 |
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 (FY17–19, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 73% of Ohio State Council Knights of Columbus’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, 99% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OCOHIO CHARITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +29% · 95% of their budget
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +10%
- TATHE ARC OF OHIO INC6× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +723%
Funded once
- TATHE ARC OF MERCER COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -96%
- SASAINT AMBROSE PARISHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- HCHEINZERLING COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +73%
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.
To provide employment opportunities to central ohioans with developmental disabilities.
We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
The ARC of Crawford County, Inc. advocates for the rights of citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities and enhances their lives by promoting maximum independence and affording them opportunities for enrichment.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
To provide advocacy & services that promote integration & participation in all aspects of life in the northwest wayne county community for children & adults with developmental disabilities.
The organization specializes in providing services to individuals with disabilities primarily through vocational, social, educational and residential programs.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
The arc of columbia county shall exist to work for the well-being of all persons with developmental and related disabilities, regardless of race, creed or color, by promoting quality of life through the advocacy for education of people…
Make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the…
We exist as an advocacy organization to make it possible for each person with a developmental disability to participate fully in all aspects of community and to support the effort of each individual to determine their own future.
The arc of colorado provides individual and systems change advocacy for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) residing in colorado and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Charity Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 OHIO CHARITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND FACILITIES SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARC OF OHIO IN MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HATTIE B COOPER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY IDOL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
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 Charity Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Council Knights of Columbus 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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