· Public charity
The Presbyterian Foundation of Columbus Indiana
To receive assets and expend money to promote religious, educational, and charitable purposes including those of the first presbyterian church of columbus, indiana.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $296,882 |
| HERITAGE FUND COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LOVE CHAPEL | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Inspiring life journeys
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
To enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Su Casa Columbus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sans Souci Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANS SOUCI INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc ↗
- Who funds SU CASA COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds MILL RACE CENTER 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: Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · First Financial Foundation · Repp Associates Foundation · Centra Foundation Inc · Columbus Regional Hospital Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Presbyterian Foundation of Columbus Indiana 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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