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The Columbus Partnership

Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.

$196k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
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 2024.

Community Improvement$1.8MHealth$50kEducation$38kPhilanthropy$29kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $39,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $195,537 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,412 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$11,625
THE HEROES JOURNEY INC$10,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION$10,000
ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL$7,500
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $10k → 5%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 4 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1.7M · revenue -78%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k

Funded once

  • NC
    Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Returngraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +117%
  • CS
    COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CM
    COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +28%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Columbus Community Hospital Inc

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Health
3
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
4
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
7
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
8
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Council of International Programs Usa

Promotes international understanding through professional development and cross-cultural exchange. cipusa is an international exchange organization based in cleveland, ohio with a network of affiliate offices nationwide and an alumni…

International
11
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP: $1,703,069 · Community ImprovementTHE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIPCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $63,167 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,125 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return: $35,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $10,000 · Human ServicesTASK FORCE PINEAPPLE INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$1,703,069Philanthropy$102,292Other$82,500Arts & Culture$12,500Education$10,000Human Services$10,000Public Benefit$10,000

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 COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP: $1,703,069 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $63,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,125 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTASK FORCE PINEAPPLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 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 FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Columbus FoundationOH13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Columbus Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Columbus Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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