· Private foundation
The McConnell Educational 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $256k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES | $105,500 |
| MCCONNELL ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST CHARLES PREPATORY SCHOOL | $9,500 |
| DUBLIN HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $9,500 |
| OLENTANGY ORANGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $9,500 |
| GAHANNA LINCOLN HOCKEY | $7,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON ICE HOCKEY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| LIBERTY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS-ICE | $7,000 |
| DUBLIN JEROME ICE HOCKEY BOOSTERS | $7,000 |
| OLENTANGY BERLIN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CBCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +64%
- COCHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $564k · revenue +53%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NCNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $720k
- CDCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORP-NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIALone grant, 2017 · $250k
- WPWESTERVILLE PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -62% · 60% 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.
The columbus crew foundation changes young lives through a passion for soccer
Field Hockey public education, outreach, financial support
The mission of the newark ice hockey association is to teach the youth of central ohio, sportsmanship, fair play, respect for coaches, referees, players and fans through the sport of ice hockey, so that they can continue to be good…
To promote the safe and organized development of youth ice hockey in Central Ohio. This is done by providing an educated population of officials for youth hockey associations and tournaments in Central Ohio. This work is invaluable in…
The organization's mission is the development and education of youth hockey players in the Central Ohio aea.
To educate youths the conceptual and fundamental skills of hockey, as well as team skills, through hands-on hockey instruction and competitive play, so that youths may learn to play the game of hockey at advanced levels. the organization…
Training youth to play hockey and providing opportunities for them to participate in league play.
To promote physical health, teamwork, education and life skills for children and youth, primarily in the greater cincinnati community.
Club ohio soccer is designed and structured to meet the needs of the elite boy's and girl's club soccer player who aspires to play at the highest level of competition. to be successful at the regional and national level, it's necessary to…
The purpose of the Dublin Coffman Hockey Booster Club (DCHBC) is to support the Dublin Coffman Hockey program and to benefit the student athletes of the Dublin City School District who play hockey at Dublin Coffman High School. A 501c3,…
Provide youth opportunities on team sports (ice hockey)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Albany Hockey Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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 COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WESTERVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Prowler Hockey Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeast Storm Hockey Club Inc ↗
- Who funds OLENTANGY ORANGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds OLENTANGY BERLIN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC ↗
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 · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 McConnell Educational 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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