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The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation

Central benefits health care foundation is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation. The purpose of central benefits healthcare foundation is to exclusively support programs that provide preventative health care to indigent children and adults in the original central ohio service area of central benefits mutual insurance…

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$300k50%
FY20242$663k50%
FY20238$592k100%
FY20223$550k67%
FY20211$20k100%
FY20181$265kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.0MYouth Development$396kHuman Services$90kReligion$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$615,0002n/a
The Buckeye Ranch Inc$500,00011%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc$300,00022%
Mental Health America of Ohio Inc$262,83225%
Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc$146,01016%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc$100,00012%
Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio$100,000117%
Celebrateone$100,000111%
Huckleberry House Inc$90,20512%
Chabad of Columbus Inc$50,00011%
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All grantees of The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$615,0002n/a
The Buckeye Ranch Inc$500,00011%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc$300,00022%
Mental Health America of Ohio Inc$262,83225%
Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc$146,01016%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc$100,00012%
Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio$100,000117%
Celebrateone$100,000111%
Huckleberry House Inc$90,20512%
Chabad of Columbus Inc$50,00011%
OhioGuidestone$41,21420%
Black Girl Rising Inc$35,000118%
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation$20,0001n/a
Ohiohealth Corporation$20,0001n/a
Cornerstone of Hope Inc$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Buckeye Ranch Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDirections for Youth and Families Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMental Health America of Ohio Inc: $262,832 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $146,010 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBhutanese Community of Central Ohio: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCelebrateone: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHuckleberry House Inc: $90,205 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $41,214 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Girl Rising Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCornerstone of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 FoundationOH28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Central Benefits Health Care 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.

About The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation

How much does The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation give?
The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (85%), Youth Development (11%), Human Services (3%).
Who are The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc ($615k), The Buckeye Ranch Inc ($500k), Directions for Youth and Families Inc ($300k).
Does The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, L Brands Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
Where is The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation based?
The Central Benefits Health Care Foundation is based in OH.

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 16 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 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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