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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$606k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$6.0MPublic Benefit$980kPhilanthropy$532kRecreation & Sports$290kReligion$273kEducation$265kEnvironment$164kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
  • $250k+1 grant · $606k
$21,635
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UPPER ARLINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 7 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$7.6M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
0%

Still filing today

29%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.0M
  • UA
    UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $273k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE UPPER ARLINGTON LIBRARY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $174k · revenue +91% · 90% of their budget

Funded once

  • UA
    UPPER ARLINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $138k · revenue 0% · 60% of their budget
  • UA
    UPPER ARLINGTON LACROSSE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -61%
  • UA
    UPPER ARLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF UPPER ARLINGTON: $7,007,504 · OtherCITY OF UPPER ARLINGTONUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $273,178 · Other+11 more: $275,221 · OtherUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $664,206 · Community ImprovementUPPER ARLINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $137,921 · Recreation & SportsUPPER ARLINGTON LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $58,554 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE UPPER ARLINGTON LIBRARY: $174,020 · EducationUPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,042 · PhilanthropyUPPER ARLINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$7,555,903Community Improvement$664,206Recreation & Sports$196,475Education$174,020Philanthropy$11,042Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $664,206 over 3y, 64% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER ARLINGTON LIBRARY: $174,020 over 5y, 90% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $137,921 over 1y, 60% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $58,554 over 1y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUB: $38,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,042 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Upper Arlington Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upper Arlington Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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 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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