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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $341,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $349,107 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,107 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$20,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM$20,000
GIRLS LEAP$20,000
FEMERGY$20,000
BLACK WOMEN IN NATURE$20,000
CENTRAL OHIO WORKER CENTER$20,000
BROWN GIRLS MENTORING$20,000
BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED$18,000
PER SCHOLAS INC$18,000
EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$10,000
NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER$10,000
VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK DBA ACCOMPANYING RETURNING CITIZENS WITH HOP$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%YWCA: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $19k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $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 INC: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER INC: $10k → 15%US TOGETHER: $10k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK (DBA ARCH): $20k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%FEMERGY: $20k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK DBA ARCH: $19k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK DBA ACCOMPANYING RETURNING CITIZENS WITH HOP: $10k → 15%FEMERGY: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Godman Guild Association; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 68 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…FREEDOM A LA CART: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetZORA'S HOUSE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $65,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetImage Character Etiquette Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 34% 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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLEAD OHIO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN OF COLOR RETAIL ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 35% 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 budgetGIRLS LEAP: $40,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetEPIC Youth: $40,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.5% 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 budgetTHE DICK AND JANE PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEMPOWERING LATINAS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY PROPERTIES IMPACT CORPORATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetMUSLIM FAMILY SERVICES OF OHIO: $11,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM A LA CART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 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

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 Women's Fund of Central Ohio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Fund of Central Ohio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 68 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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