How much does Women's Fund of Central Ohio give?

Women's Fund of Central Ohio reported 20 itemized grants totaling $341,000, out of $349,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Women's Fund of Central Ohio fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Education (13%), Health (13%).

Who are Women's Fund of Central Ohio's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Policy Matters Ohio ($195k), Innovation Ohio Education Fund ($190k), Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio ($185k).

Does Women's Fund of Central Ohio fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Fund of Central Ohio?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc, Ingram-White Castle Foundation.

Where is Women's Fund of Central Ohio based?

Women's Fund of Central Ohio is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

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. This mission is accomplished through many avenues.

$349k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 20
Itemized grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 37%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $341k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $18,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $9.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Women's Fund of Central Ohio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	20	$341k	30%
FY2024	19	$415k	37%
FY2023	19	$269k	47%
FY2022	17	$265k	35%
FY2021	21	$297k	24%
FY2020	25	$321k	40%
FY2019	19	$290k	42%
FY2018	14	$263k	21%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Policy Matters Ohio	$195,000	9	2%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$190,000	6	15%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio	$185,000	8	0%
Femergy	$150,000	7	30%
Ohio State University Foundation	$80,000	3	0%
Helpline of Delaware and Morrow Counties	$80,000	6	1%
New Directions Career Center	$74,000	6	1%
League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund	$70,500	6	7%
Central Community House	$70,000	4	1%
Zora's House Inc	$65,000	2	8%

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All grantees of Women's Fund of Central Ohio by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Policy Matters Ohio	$195,000	9	2%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$190,000	6	15%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio	$185,000	8	0%
Femergy	$150,000	7	30%
Ohio State University Foundation	$80,000	3	0%
Helpline of Delaware and Morrow Counties	$80,000	6	1%
New Directions Career Center	$74,000	6	1%
League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund	$70,500	6	7%
Central Community House	$70,000	4	1%
Zora's House Inc	$65,000	2	8%
Womens Center for Economic Opportunity	$65,000	2	17%
Image Character Etiquette Inc	$65,000	4	34%
My Project USA	$60,000	3	1%
US Together Inc	$60,000	5	0%
Proyecto Mariposas	$51,500	6	12%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$50,000	3	0%
The Center for Healthy Families	$50,000	1	2%
Lead Ohio Foundation	$50,000	2	12%
Justice for Migrant Women	$50,000	2	0%
Women of Color Retail Alliance	$50,000	1	35%
Vincentian Ohio Action Network	$49,000	3	2%
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation	$45,000	3	20%
Vote Run Lead Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Girls Leap	$40,000	3	18%
EPIC Youth	$40,000	3	4%
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc	$40,000	2	6%
Girls on the Run of Central Ohio	$39,400	4	3%
The Bold Girl Collective	$39,000	2	7%
Otterbein University	$38,500	4	0%
Equitas Health Inc	$37,234	3	0%
Central Ohio Women in the Trades	$30,000	2	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association	$30,000	3	0%
A Seat at Our Table	$30,000	2	n/a
Education Foundation for Freedom	$25,500	2	13%
Ohio Womens Alliance	$25,462	2	1%
Beautifully Flawed	$25,000	2	n/a
Equality Ohio Education Fund	$25,000	2	0%
Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio	$22,499	3	6%
Columbus Early Learning Centers	$20,000	1	1%
The Dick and Jane Project	$20,000	1	4%
Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy	$20,000	1	22%
Black Women in Nature	$20,000	1	n/a
Per Scholas Inc	$18,000	1	n/a
Community Properties Impact Corporation	$18,000	2	1%
Community Initiatives	$15,000	2	0%
Godman Guild Association	$15,000	1	0%
Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality	$15,000	1	5%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote	$15,000	1	0%
Muslim Family Services of Ohio	$11,500	2	2%
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Lifecare Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
The Buckeye Ranch Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Freedom a la Cart	$10,000	1	0%
Nawbo Columbus Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Celebrateone	$10,000	1	2%
Choice Network Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Horizon Community Engagement Corporation dba Horizon Prison Initiative	$10,000	1	n/a
Abortion Fund of Ohio	$10,000	1	0%
Juvenile Justice Coalition	$10,000	1	n/a
Tech Corps Ohio	$10,000	1	n/a
Ohio Poverty and Law Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Groundwork Ohio	$10,000	1	0%
The Ohio University Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council Inc	$10,000	1	0%
United Way of Central Ohio Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio Inc	$7,500	1	0%
United Schools	$7,500	1	0%

Women's Fund of Central Ohio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

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.

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About Women's Fund of Central Ohio

How much does Women's Fund of Central Ohio give?: Women's Fund of Central Ohio reported 20 itemized grants totaling $341,000, out of $349,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Women's Fund of Central Ohio fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Education (13%), Health (13%).
Who are Women's Fund of Central Ohio's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Policy Matters Ohio ($195k), Innovation Ohio Education Fund ($190k), Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio ($185k).
Does Women's Fund of Central Ohio fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Fund of Central Ohio?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc, Ingram-White Castle Foundation.
Where is Women's Fund of Central Ohio based?: Women's Fund of Central Ohio is based in OH.