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Women's Fund of Central Ohio

The mission of the women's fund is to tranform the lives of women and girls by mobilizing the collective power and passion of all people working together.

$349k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$648kEducation$347kHealth$344kHuman Services$286kPublic Benefit$195kCivil Rights$185kEmployment$157kSocial Science$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $341,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $349,107 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,107 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

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $291k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOC RETAIL ALLIANCE$50,000
EMPOWERING LATINAS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$20,000
BROWN GIRLS MENTORING$20,000
FEMERGY$20,000
CENTRAL OHIO WORKER CENTER$20,000
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$20,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM$20,000
GIRLS LEAP$20,000
BLACK WOMEN IN NATURE$20,000
PER SCHOLAS INC$18,000
BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED$18,000
EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND$15,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$10,000
NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $50k → 15%FEMERGY: $50k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $15k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%YWCA: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $19k → 15%FEMERGY: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%JUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION: $10k → 15%CHOICE NETWORK DBA JUSTCHOICE: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER: $20k → 15%US TOGETHER INC: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER INC: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER INC: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK (DBA ARCH): $20k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK DBA ARCH: $19k → 15%FEMERGY: $10k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK DBA ACCOMPANYING RETURNING CITIZENS WITH HOP: $10k → 15%THE BUCKEYE RANCH: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 39 repeat orgs$428k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
23

Total granted

$2.3M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+10%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsEmploymentOther

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

  • PM
    POLICY MATTERS OHIO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +16%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +41%
  • F
    FEMERGY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +358% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • CE
    COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +168%
  • TD
    THE DICK AND JANE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +211%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
2
Ohio Partners for Transformation
Religion
3
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
4
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

—
7
League of Women Voters of Ohio

The league of women voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

—
8
Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund

The purpose of the Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund is to build capacity for women, femmes, and gender-expansive folksparticularly Black womento determine the lives they want for themselves, their families, and their communities through…

—
9
Ohio Progressive Collaborative

To convene a high capacity group of donors that strategically leverage resources to achieve political and policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio by strengthening infrastructure.

—
10
The Women's Clinic of Columbus

Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.

Health
11
Innovation Ohio

Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohios working families.

—
12
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Godman Guild Association and the most unlike its peers is Image Character Etiquette 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEconomic Development & Comm…Faith-Based Social ServicesCharter and Preparatory Sch…Performing Arts Organizatio…Children's Health & Wellnes…Construction Trade UnionsDog and Cat RescueMedical Professional Associ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr13%24%5–10yr16%26%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr24%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr13%22%5–10yr16%30%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr24%18%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
12%
1,180/9,447

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 68 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Innovation Ohio Education Fund — $190,000 · EducationInnovation Ohio Educ…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSIT…WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY — $65,000 · EducationWOMENS CENTER FOR EC…GIRLS LEAP — $40,000 · EducationGIRLS LEAPOtterbein University — $38,500 · EducationOtterbein UniversityEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM — $25,500 · EducationEMPOWERING LATINAS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $37,500 · Education+4 moreFEMERGY — $150,000 · Human ServicesFEMERGYNEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER — $74,000 · Human ServicesNEW DIRECTIONS CAR…US TOGETHER INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesUS TOGETHER INCTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR HEA…VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $49,000 · Human ServicesVINCENTIAN OHIO AC…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRI…+3 more — $30,000 · Human Services+3 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $185,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…HELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES — $80,000 · HealthHELPLINE OF DEL…Restoring Our Own Through Transformation — $45,000 · HealthRestoring Our O…Equitas Health Inc — $37,234 · HealthEquitas Health …+2 more — $20,000 · Health+2 moreCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $70,000 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSEEPIC Youth — $40,000 · OtherThe Bold Girl Collective — $39,000 · OtherCENTRAL OHIO WOMEN IN THE TRADES — $30,000 · OtherA SEAT AT OUR TABLE — $30,000 · OtherZORA'S HOUSE INC — $65,000 · OtherZORA'S HOUSE INCPROYECTO MARIPOSAS — $51,500 · OtherPROYECTO MARIPOSASWOMEN OF COLOR RETAIL ALLIANCE — $50,000 · OtherWOMEN OF COLOR RETAIL ALLIANCEVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $40,000 · OtherJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN — $50,000 · OtherJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMENLEAD OHIO FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherLEAD OHIO FOUNDATION+18 more — $272,961 · Other+18 moreImage Character Etiquette Inc — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentImage Char…MY PROJECT USA — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentMY PROJECT…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO — $39,400 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON T…THE DICK AND JANE PROJECT — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DICK A…GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM A LA CART — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $195,000 · Social ScienceLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND — $70,500 · Civil RightsCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc — $40,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education Fund — $25,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Education$496,500Human Services$443,000Health$367,234Other$788,461Youth Development$254,400Social Science$195,000Civil Rights$160,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $195,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetInnovation Ohio Education Fund — $190,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $185,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFEMERGY — $150,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES — $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER — $74,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND — $70,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY — $65,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetImage Character Etiquette Inc — $65,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetZORA'S HOUSE INC — $65,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMY PROJECT USA — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROYECTO MARIPOSAS — $51,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD OHIO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN OF COLOR RETAIL ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $49,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRestoring Our Own Through Transformation — $45,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEPIC Youth — $40,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGIRLS LEAP — $40,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL OHIO — $39,400 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetThe Bold Girl Collective — $39,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetOtterbein University — $38,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEquitas Health Inc — $37,234 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM — $25,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $25,462 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL OHIO — $22,499 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEMPOWERING LATINAS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE DICK AND JANE PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PROPERTIES IMPACT CORPORATION — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO — $11,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATEONE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationUnited Way of Central…Ingram-White Castle F…Siemer Family Foundat…L Brands FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Encova Foundation of …Harry C Moores Founda…Cardinal Health Found…The George Gund Found…Ohio VoiceNisource Charitable F…
Columbus FoundationOH65.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Ohio Voice · Nisource Charitable 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 Women's Fund of Central Ohio 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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