· Private foundation
The Barbara W and Philip R Derrow Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| CHABAD OF COLUMBUS INC | $25,000 |
| FLYING HORSE FARMS | $15,000 |
| NEW ALBANY-PLAIN LOCAL SCHOOLS | $13,687 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +143% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +23%
- CMCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +143%
- FHFLYING HORSE FARMS6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
- LTLife Town Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +103%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY AND HEALINGone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
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 Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…
In fulfillment of our mission and philosophy we strive to embrace the vitality of a diverse community and provide a curriculum that reflects multiple cultures and global connectedness; Develop leadership capacity and instill a commitment…
The foundation exists primarily to raise, receive, and manage private gifts for the advancement and benefit of cleveland state university and its students and faculty. our mission is to improve access to higher education and the quality of…
The Ohio University Foundation was established in 1945 to support the mission of Ohio University, the first institution of higher education in the Northwest Territory. Ohio University holds as its central purpose the intellectual and…
Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Ohio College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…
To promote a higher quality of life, and the realization of the full intellectual and social development of students with autism spectrum disorder. The school is structured to provide every student with autism spectrum disorder an…
The mission is to promote a strong, comprehensive jewish education, within an orthodox framework, that inspires learning, living and growing in judaism; provide a broad based, high quality, secular education designed to impart the critical…
Ccad fosters a diverse community that educates students so they can unleash their creative power to shape culture and commerce.
Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oakstone Academy Palm Beach Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Life Town Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds OAKSTONE ACADEMY PALM BEACH CORPORATION ↗
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 · Safelite Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · M I Homes Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Barbara W and Philip R Derrow 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.
- Life Town Inc — 26% of income from government
- Oakstone Academy Palm Beach Corporation — 0% 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.