How much did POPE FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of POPE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

victims violenceadvance artsblind

2019

recreation youthadvance artsvictims violenceblind

2020

recreation youthadvance artsblindviolence

2021

rescueadvance artsblindviolence

2022

activitiesblind

2023

hockey

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k5 grants · $22k
$10k–50k2 grants · $45k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

DELAWARE AREA CAREER CENTER$34,921
CITY MUSIC COLUMBUS$10,000
WOSU PUBLIC MEDIA$6,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION$5,000
CENTRAL OH GIRLS HOCKEY$5,000
STOCKHANDS HORSES FOR HEAL$5,000
OHIO SLED HOCKEY$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$200k · 18 repeat orgs$682k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$200k

$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+47%

Still filing today

33%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND
6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +44%
PC
PBJ CONNECTIONS
3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +206%
CI
COLUMBUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB
3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +2%

Funded once

CO
C-TECHNOLOGY OF LICKING COUNTY
one grant, 2022 · $500k
LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%
FT
FINAL THIRD FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +339%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Columbus Dog Connection Inc

To rescue, foster, and find permanent homes for stray and homeless dogs and cats. to implement an aggresssive spay/neuter program throughout ohio to help end unwanted pet overpopulation.

Animals

Shelter Outreach Services of Ohio

To improve the quality of life of shelter animals and companion animals of low income families by providing affordable veterinary care and to help reduce the homeless pet population through spay/neuter programs.

Animals

Save Ohio Pets

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…

Animals

Greyhound Adoption of Ohio Inc

Greyhound Adoption of Ohio, Inc (GAO) finds loving homes for retired racing greyhound, as an alternative to euthanasia. In order to ensure these greyhounds are placed in appropriate homes, potential adopters fill out an application,…

Animals

Rescuedohio

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…

Animals

Peace for Paws Ohio Inc

Assist with homeless pet overpopulation in ohio by providing education and financial support for spay and neuter efforts, financing shelter rescue fees, organizing basic veterinary care, facilitating transportation for companion animals…

Human Services

Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary

Animals

Ohio Society for the Prevention of

The ohio society for the prevention of cruelty to animals works to prevent and stop cruelty to animals throughout ohio. our mission falls into three main areas: 1) intervention in cases of animal cruelty, 2) animal rehibilitation, and 3)…

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Animal Charity of Ohio Inc

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.

Animals

Ajs Search & Rescue

We rescue animals and search to find them a forever home. We are a foster based organization that takes homeless dogs and cats into our home and provide them with proper medical care, food, shelter and love until they find their forever…

Animals

Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society

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…

Animals

Paws and Prayers Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate and re-home unwanted dogs and cats; to prevent overpopulation through spay/neuter, find the best home for each dog and cat in our care, educate adopters and community on pet care, spaying/neutering, and training.…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forgotten 4-Paws. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

10%

1,162/11,541

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$798,421Human Services$24,000Animals$18,000Recreation & Sports$14,500Youth Development$12,000Health$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FORGOTTEN 4 PAWS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311458653 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FORGOTTEN 4 PAWS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Pope Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pope Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

POPE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pope Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

POPE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pope Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph