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The American Home Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $681k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $200,000 |
| OTTERBEIN AT GRANVILLE | $84,441 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO INC | $81,500 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY WOMENS CLUB | $60,000 |
| OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER | $55,000 |
| DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| SEALKIDS | $50,000 |
| M&M FIRE DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE YOUTH CENTER | $43,300 |
| CENTRAL OHIO TRAUMA SYSTEM | $37,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO | $37,000 |
| FINANCIAL LITERACY ACTS INTEGRATED KITS | $25,000 |
| DOMINICAN LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k 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
- CMCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $888k · revenue +17%
- TATHE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +6%
- OUOtterbein Universityone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds OTTERBEIN AT GRANVILLE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds M & M FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE SER ↗
- Who funds SEALKIDS ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER ↗
- Who funds Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM A LA CART ↗
- Who funds THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FOR COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Siemer Family Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 organization The American Home 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.
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
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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