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Osteopathic Heritage Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $9.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $3,674,093 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $1,643,295 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $1,643,295 |
| ADAMH BOARD OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $1,250,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $955,999 |
| ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $332,500 |
| COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO | $170,000 |
| THE BUCKEYE RANCH | $166,667 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| THE BUCKEYE RANCH | $143,620 |
| THE BUCKEYE RANCH | $143,620 |
| MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $112,500 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $105,113 |
| ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $102,760 |
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, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 7% of Osteopathic Heritage Foundation’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 91% — 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.
43 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $643k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO4× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +38%
- MIMARYHAVEN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +13%
- SVST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- FFFINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION (HOPEWELL HEALTH CENTERS)one grant, 2018 · $224k
- SSST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $197k · revenue +68%
- RUROWAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $34k
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 serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The mission of aohc is to provide exceptional service to its members and to advance the mission of public health to prevent, promote and protect the health of the community by developing and maintaining strong local public health…
To provide health and wellness services without geographic restriction.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
To facilitate the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals in order to enhance patient care and safety.
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Healthcolumbus Dba Health Impact Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Harmony Project. 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 50 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 78 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.
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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: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations Inc · Community Shelter Board
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 Osteopathic Heritage 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.
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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