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The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation
Central benefits health care foundation is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $163k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BUCKEYE RANCH | $500,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF OHIO | $162,832 |
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 (FY23–24, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
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 ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.
Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Improve lives by providing trauma-responsive foster care, adoption, and behavioral health services that promote permanency, safety, and well-being for youth and families.
Fostering a brighter tomorrow for Ohio's children and families through advocacy, innovation, and collaboration with health and human service organizations.
Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.
A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.
Child focus strengthens the quality of life for 20,000 individuals in central and southern Ohio by developing thriving kids, strong families and successful adults
Inspiring life journeys
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Directions for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Girl Rising Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATEONE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds Black Girl Rising Inc ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
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 · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Osteopathic Heritage Foundation · Women's Fund of Central Ohio
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 Central Benefits Health Care 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.
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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