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Upper Arlington Community Foundation
The UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a home for philanthropy in upper arlington that leads efforts to connect our community around big ideas and projects, enhances our local nonprofits, and builds community leaders.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
- $250k+1 grant · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $606,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $138,178 |
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $91,925 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON CITY SCHOOLS | $29,525 |
| TRI-VILLAGE LIONS | $28,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $26,223 |
| UA JUNIOR BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $21,635 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $15,000 |
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $14,030 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON SOFTBALL | $12,925 |
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $8,910 |
| CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON | $5,513 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +119% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- COCITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON6× · 2020–2025 · $7.0M
- UAUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO2× · 2024–2025 · $273k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UPPER ARLINGTON LIBRARY5× · 2020–2025 · $174k · revenue +91% · 90% of their budget
Funded once
- UAUPPER ARLINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $138k · revenue 0% · 60% of their budget
- UAUPPER ARLINGTON LACROSSE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -61%
- UAUPPER ARLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 19 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 UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER ARLINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON LACROSSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Columbus 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 Upper Arlington 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.