· Private foundation
Pope Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE AREA CAREER CENTER | $34,921 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOSU PUBLIC MEDIA | $6,000 |
| STOCKHANDS HORSES FOR HEAL | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL OH GIRLS HOCKEY | $5,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| OHIO SLED HOCKEY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- VRVOICECORPS READING SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +83%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +86%- CHCOPPER HORSE CRUSADE5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- COC-TECHNOLOGY OF LICKING COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $500k
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FTFINAL THIRD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +167%
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.
SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering trap-neuter-return and other outreach programs; and operating a no-kill adoption…
Animal protection and welfare.
None
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service
The organization's mission is to serve dogs in need by assisting partner shelters and providing comprehensive care until a compatible home is found. our efforts are fueled entirely by volunteers. we share a passion to transform lives…
Friendship apl receives companion animals through cruelty investigations, rescue from high volume shelters and direct owner surrender. the staff and volunteers care for the animals until they are adopted into a new home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence and the most unlike its peers is Megans Mission. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 52 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 THE DAWES ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds VOICECORPS READING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER HORSE CRUSADE ↗
- Who funds PBJ CONNECTIONS JEDLICKA ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PET PROMISE ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Meadows Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM A LA CART ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN 4-PAWS ↗
- Who funds STOCKHANDS HORSES FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MY PROJECT USA ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STOP THE SUFFERING RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Megans Mission ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB 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: 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
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 Pope Family 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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