How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Ohio?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in Ohio, currently Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association, Community Shelter Board, National Church Residences Foundation. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Ohio from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in Ohio?

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association gives the most to human services organizations in Ohio, $175M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in Ohio?

$2.5B reached 2,401 human services organizations in Ohio, from 3,730 funders. 74% came from funders also based in Ohio.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Ohio · Human services

Who funds human services in Ohio

Human services funding in Ohio is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio leads, and the money reaches 2,401 groups.

$2.5B

granted

2,401

organizations

74%

from in-state

The short version

3,730 funders gave $2.5B to 2,401 human services organizations in Ohio across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
74% of that came from funders also based in Ohio; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in Ohio is Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association, at $175M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio, at $117M.

Largest funders of human services in Ohio

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Ohio, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association$175M 2Community Shelter Board$141M 3National Church Residences Foundation$82M 4Jewish Federation of Cleveland$74M 5Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc$73M 6Columbus Foundation$71M 7National Philanthropic Trust$67M 8United Way of Greater Cincinnati$62M 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$54M 10The Cleveland Foundation$45M

Human services organizations in Ohio that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,391 other human services organizations$1.9B

Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio$117M Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$84M

How to find human services funders in Ohio

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Start with the funders already active in Ohio
The funders giving the most to human services in Ohio are Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association, Community Shelter Board, National Church Residences Foundation. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
26% of human services money in Ohio comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Ohio.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Ohio?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in Ohio, currently Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association, Community Shelter Board, National Church Residences Foundation. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Ohio from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Ohio?: Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association gives the most to human services organizations in Ohio, $175M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Ohio?: $2.5B reached 2,401 human services organizations in Ohio, from 3,730 funders. 74% came from funders also based in Ohio.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.