· Community foundation
The New Albany Community Foundation
To build the resources necessary to be a catalyst for, a convener of and an investor in initiatives that perpetuate the vision shared by the community, our donors and visionaries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $1,049,853 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,111,693 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,840 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $487k
- $250k+1 grant · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $435,323 |
| JEANNE B MCCOY COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS CORPORATION | $191,156 |
| NEW ALBANY-PLAIN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $127,561 |
| HEALTHY NEW ALBANY | $91,662 |
| NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $77,100 |
| GARDEN FOR ALL | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $24,957 |
| WELL-BEING CONNECTION INC | $17,400 |
| NEW ALBANY NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES | $11,500 |
| THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NEW ALBANY | $10,694 |
| EMPOWERING THE NEXT | $7,500 |
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, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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; $55k 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
- JBJEANNE B MCCOY COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +1% · 36% of their budget
- HNHEALTHY NEW ALBANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $824k · revenue +67% · 33% of their budget
- NANEW ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- RRROSE RUN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- NANEW ALBANY PLAIN TOWNSHIPone grant, 2017 · $36k
- LILIFEWISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +503%
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
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,…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
Our mission: create and discover beauty to foster a community empowered by the arts. this reflects our highest aspirations for our organization as we strive for artistic excellence and represents the pedagogical principal in all our…
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Wellbeing Connection Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 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 COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEANNE B MCCOY COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY NEW ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NEW ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING THE NEXT ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY CHILDRENS BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FORM5 PROSTHETICS INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF MID OHIO ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds DREAMS ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
- Who funds RESPIRE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Village Coalition Against Hunger Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Meuse Family Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Greater Columbus Arts Council · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Hinson Family Trust Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return
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 New Albany Community 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.