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Public Health Fund of Ohio

The PUBLIC HEALTH FUND OF OHIO is designed to facilitate public/private partnerships and conduct critical, enduring, sustainable, and cost-effective public health projects and programming.

$256k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Health$523kEducation$135kHuman Services$80kPhilanthropy$50kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAINT VALLEY ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH BOARD$95,000
ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BOARD OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY$45,000
DARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER$45,000
FITZ CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$40,000
TALBERT HOUSE$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KNOX COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $50k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $30k → 16%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$270k · 3 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
21

Total granted

$270k
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+33%

Still filing today

33%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COUNTY OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $95k
  • DC
    DARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $95k
  • TH
    TALBERT HOUSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES BOARD OF LOGAN AND CHAMPAIGN COUNT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY FOR LICKING AND KNOX COUNTIES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

1
Community Health and Wellness Partners of Logan County

Community health and wellness partners of logan county's mission is to serve as community partners in healthcare by providing economic-based, whole person, whole community primary care to anyone and everyone in our community.

Health
2
Community Health Systems Inc

Operate primary health care clinics, ultrasound, ob/gyn and five pharmacies.

3
Muskingum Valley Health Center

To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.

Health
4
Grace Health Inc

To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.

Health
5
Ohio Hills Health Services

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…

6
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health
7
The Healthcare Connection Inc

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.

8
Community Health Services Inc

To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.

Health
9
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
10
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
11
Health Help Inc

White house clinics strive to enhance the health of our patients, our employees, and the communities we serve by providing accessible and comprehensive high quality primary care services, dental services, behavioral services and pharmacy…

12
Lifecare Family Health and Dental Center Inc

Provide high-quality, comprehensive and affordable primary care health services that improve our patient's overall health.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salaam Cleveland. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%35%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr20%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%30%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr20%42%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
3,794/29,910

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CUYAHOGA COUNTY OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD — $95,000 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOODPAINT VALLEY ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH BOARD — $95,000 · OtherPAINT VALLEY ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH BOARDDARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER — $95,000 · OtherDARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERMENTAL HEALTH DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES BOARD OF LOGAN AND CHAMPAIGN COUNT — $50,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES BOARD OF LOGAN AND CHAMPAI…MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY FOR LICKING AND KNOX COUNTIES — $50,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY FOR LICKING AND KNOX COUNTIESFITZ CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON — $40,000 · OtherFITZ CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON+4 more — $40,000 · Other+4 moreMt Sinai Health Care Foundation — $25,000 · HealthMt Sinai Health C…FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF DARKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH SER…FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY — $10,000 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH SER…COLUMBUS NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthCOLUMBUS NEIGHBOR…ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthROCKING HORSE CHI…Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers — $10,000 · HealthHeart of Ohio Fam…FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthFAIRFIELD COMMUNI…LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthLOWER LIGHTS CHRI…NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC — $9,840 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEAL…Compass Community Health — $9,700 · HealthCompass Community…Equitas Health Inc — $7,960 · HealthEquitas Health In…TALBERT HOUSE — $80,000 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSECARE ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCARE ALLIANCEKNOX COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesKNOX COUNTY CO…Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 · ReligionCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropySALAAM CLEVELAND — $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$465,000Health$122,500Human Services$100,000Religion$50,000Philanthropy$50,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTALBERT HOUSE — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMt Sinai Health Care Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF DARKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOX COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of Ohio Family Health Centers — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC — $9,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Community Health — $9,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEquitas Health Inc — $7,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Direct ReliefCA27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Direct Relief · Delta Dental Fund · Columbus Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Medwish Medworks · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · American Heart Association Inc · Deaconess Health Associations Fund Inc · The CareSource 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 Public Health Fund of Ohio 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Public Health Fund of Ohio?

    Find your warmest path to Public Health Fund of Ohio 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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