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The Barbara W and Philip R Derrow Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$239k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$629kEducation$472kRecreation & Sports$51kReligion$25kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$4k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFETOWN: $5k → 16%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 6 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +143% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$518k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%
+37%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +23%
  • CM
    COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +143%
  • FH
    FLYING HORSE FARMS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
  • LT
    Life Town Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +103%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR FAMILY SAFETY AND HEALING
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Capital University

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

Education
2
Otterbein University

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…

Education
3
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
4
Columbus State University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
5
Columbus School for Girls

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…

Education
6
Cleveland State University Foundation

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…

Education
7
The Ohio University Foundation

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…

Education
8
Ohio Collegiate Academy

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…

Education
9
Autism Academy of Learning

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…

Education
10
Columbus Torah Academy

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…

Education
11
Columbus College of Art & Design

Ccad fosters a diverse community that educates students so they can unleash their creative power to shape culture and commerce.

Education
12
Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment

Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $627,688 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $76,830 · EducationCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY…+4 more: $6,900 · EducationCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY: $120,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS METROP…NEW ALBANY-PLAIN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $43,033 · OtherNEW ALBANY-PLAI…+2 more: $2,550 · OtherFLYING HORSE FARMS: $49,500 · Recreation & SportsChabad of Columbus Inc: $25,000 · ReligionLife Town Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$631,688Education$308,730Other$165,583Recreation & Sports$49,500Religion$25,000Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $627,688 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $76,830 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $49,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Town Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTAR HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKSTONE ACADEMY PALM BEACH CORPORATION: $100 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…Safelite FoundationL Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Columbus Jewish Found…M I Homes FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…
Columbus FoundationOH18.6× affinity7 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 · 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

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 Barbara W and Philip R Derrow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara W and Philip R Derrow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Life Town Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Oakstone Academy Palm Beach Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 15 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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