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The American Home Foundation at a glance

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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.

$934k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$675kReligion$116kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$84kAnimals$80kHousing & Shelter$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $248k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $681k
$43,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SEALKIDS$50,000
M&M FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION$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
AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER$25,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $50k → 5%OTTERBEIN AT GRANVILLE: $84k → 10%Kendall at Granville: $2k → 10%SEALKIDS: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 10 repeat orgs$919k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$2.8M
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+6%

Still filing today

70%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $888k · revenue +17%
  • TA
    THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F
    3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • OU
    Otterbein University
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Columbus Association of Realtors

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,…

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4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
6
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
7
Oberlin College

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,…

Education
8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
10
Thomas University

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.

Education
11
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

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…

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12
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENISON UNIVERSITY: $887,500 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYOHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationOHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITYOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+3 more: $56,200 · EducationCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $436,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $81,500 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY WOMENS CLUB: $60,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY WOMENS C…DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 · OtherDORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMA…M & M FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE SER: $50,000 · OtherM & M FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBUL…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $37,000 · Other+22 more: $179,033 · Other+22 moreOTTERBEIN AT GRANVILLE: $85,941 · Human ServicesSEALKIDS: $50,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $50,000 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F: $90,000 · HealthCOTS: $37,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $55,000 · AnimalsAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER: $25,000 · AnimalsKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $43,300 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM A LA CART: $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,293,700Arts & Culture$1,035,500Other$893,533Human Services$210,941Health$142,500Animals$80,000Youth Development$58,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,035,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $887,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F: $90,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetOTTERBEIN AT GRANVILLE: $85,941 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $81,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $37,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOtterbein University: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,200 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FOR COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationUnited Way of Central…Siemer Family Foundat…Ingram-White Castle F…Gannett Foundation IncCoastal Community Fou…Nisource Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…
Columbus FoundationOH29.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The American Home Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Home Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The American Home Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The American Home 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.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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