· Private foundation
The Hous Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHINING DIAMONDS DANCE STUDIO | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,220 |
| THE CHEER INSTITUTE | $3,200 |
| COMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION | $1,900 |
| COLUMBUS DIAMONDS ELITE CHEER | $1,300 |
| MICHELLE TUESDAY MUSIC SCHOOL | $1,265 |
| YOUNG CHEFS ACADEMY | $1,112 |
| PASSE DANCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| ORIENTAL MARTIAL ARTS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO HILLTOP | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| I9 SPORTS | $976 |
| DICKS SPORTING GOODS | $965 |
| Individual grant recipient | $875 |
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 (FY24–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Athletic/civic opportunities for Youth
Service to needy children.
Provide day care services for up to 20 children, ages newborn to 5.
To enable young people to reach their full potential
To provide clothing to underprivileged children located in Northwest Ohio.
The Columbus Diaper Bank is a 501 (c)(3) organization incorporated in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Diaper Bank works to improve the lives of Central Ohio families by providing diapers to the families in need and to increase community…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Our mission is to foster improved literacy and a love of reading by providing free books to children through collaboration with community partners.
Service to youth and youth related organizations
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center and the most unlike its peers is Coplay. 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 60 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 KIDS GET CANCER TOO ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BOTTOMS FREE STORE ↗
- Who funds ALL THAT- TEENS HOPEFUL ABOUT TOMMORROW ↗
- Who funds The Mirth Project ↗
- Who funds CLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MY VERY OWN BLANKET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
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 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hous Foundation Inc 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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