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Pope Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$34,921
Organizations funded a year
7 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Pope Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$67k86%
FY202231$652k77%
FY202113$30k23%
FY202013$30k23%
FY201911$32k0%
FY201811$34k18%
FY201714$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Science & Tech$500kHuman Services$83kArts & Culture$62kRecreation & Sports$44kAnimals$43kEmployment$35kEnvironment$33kHealth$33kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Dawes Arboretum$33,00060%
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence$28,00050%
Voicecorps Reading Services Inc$20,00061%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$10,50060%
Turning Point$9,0003n/a
Copper Horse Crusade$8,50051%
Pbj Connections Jedlicka$7,00031%
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption$6,50020%
The Ohio State University$6,0001n/a
Freedom a la Cart$5,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($659k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pope Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Dawes Arboretum: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetChoices for Victims of Domestic Violence: $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVoicecorps Reading Services Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCopper Horse Crusade: $8,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPbj Connections Jedlicka: $7,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNew Vocations Racehorse Adoption: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom a la Cart: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForgotten 4-Paws: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetHuckleberry House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStop the Suffering Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMy Project USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifecare Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Open Shelter Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFinal Third Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetStockhands Horses for Healing: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPet Promise: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAdaptive Sports Connection Corder: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Meadows Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHealthy Worthington Resource Center and Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcerned Citizens Against Violence Agai Dba Turning Point: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOhio Sled Hockey Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Columbus FoundationOH34.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · Nisource Charitable Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Pope Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pope Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Pope Family Foundation

How much does Pope Family Foundation give?
Pope Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $66,921 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pope Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Science & Tech (57%), Human Services (9%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Pope Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Dawes Arboretum ($33k), Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence ($28k), Voicecorps Reading Services Inc ($20k).
Does Pope Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pope Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pope Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, American Electric Power Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
Where is Pope Family Foundation based?
Pope Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 52 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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