· Public charity
The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus
Support of religious, educational, and charitable activities in furtherance of the catholic church and catholic diocese of columbus.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 235 grants below total $12,624,457 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,759,974 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,135,517 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $288k
- $10k–50k138 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS - FINANCE OFFICE | $1,717,576 |
| ST PAUL'S OUTREACH INCORPORATED | $803,708 |
| OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $504,626 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $447,550 |
| ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE | $302,550 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITY INC | $272,700 |
| THE APPEAL | $266,580 |
| DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS | $255,534 |
| BISHOP MCCORT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMP INC | $243,373 |
| THE BRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $198,300 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $173,650 |
| ST PAUL THE APOSTLE PARISH | $155,320 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $153,500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $151,300 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
304 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- DIDAMASCUS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +181%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +35%
- BGBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +130% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $412k
- DODiocese of Columbus - Tribunal Officeone grant, 2017 · $208k
- 6W6401 WOODLAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $201k · revenue -100% · 43% of their budget
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…
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St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lindy Infante Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 594 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DAMASCUS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MCCORT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUN THE RACE CLUB ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
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 · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · American Electric Power Foundation · Kelley Family Foundation
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 Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus 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.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.