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The Chester Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OHIO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| GIVE NEUROHEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $5,055 |
| CHIPPEWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DREAMS ON HORSEBACK | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $3,000 |
| FAMILIES FLOURISH | $3,000 |
| CARES FOR DIAC | $2,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHARITY NEWSIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WSWELLINGTON SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +10%
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +13%
- DODREAMS ON HORSEBACK2× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -2%
- CMCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +28%
- PPELOTONIAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
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.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
We are physicians and other experts improving the health of caregivers, patients and communities.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
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 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,…
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dreams On Horseback. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 WELLINGTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds DREAMS ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PSI UPSILON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ford Family Foundation Inc · Meuse Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Chester 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.
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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