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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.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,500
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$949k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$28kArts & Culture$23kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$10kHealth$7kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Hous Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gladden Community House$5,00010%
Little Bottoms Free Store$5,00012%
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center$5,00010%
The Mirth Project$5,00017%
Kids Get Cancer Too$5,00019%
Ohio Newsboys Association Inc$5,00010%
My Very Own Blanket Project Inc$5,00010%
All That- Teens Hopeful About Tommorrow$5,00010%
Community for New Direction Inc$1,9001n/a
Columbus Children's Theatre$83010%
Legacies United Foundation$5001n/a
Bus City Bullys$5001n/a
Gahanna Junior League Sports Inc$2501n/a
Coplay$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hous Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGladden Community House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLittle Bottoms Free Store: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetClintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mirth Project: $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetKids Get Cancer Too: $5,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetOhio Newsboys Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMy Very Own Blanket Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAll That- Teens Hopeful About Tommorrow: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbus Children's Theatre: $830 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoplay: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 10.

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 FoundationOH22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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Find your warmest path to The Hous Foundation Inc 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 Hous Foundation Inc

How much does The Hous Foundation Inc give?
The Hous Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $50,715 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Hous Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Arts & Culture (22%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are The Hous Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Gladden Community House ($5k), Little Bottoms Free Store ($5k), Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center ($5k).
Does The Hous Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hous Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Harry C Moores Foundation.
Where is The Hous Foundation Inc based?
The Hous Foundation Inc 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 60 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-PF 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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