Ohio · Nonprofit
Central Ohio Community Improvement
Central Ohio Community Improvement (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being CAMPUS PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Central Ohio Community Improvement does
Mission
To stabilize or increase property values in areas of Franklin County suffering from the effects of blighted, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed or economically-stranded properties and to promote and facilitate rehabilitation, reutilization and return to productive status.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Demolition of Blighted Properties. Land reutilization activities involving the demolition, environmental remediation, or both, of blighted properties, sometimes involving the dispositon of the formerly blighted property either through a simple conveyance to a responsible party for re-use, typically with an expectation of a limited recovery of expenditures, or through the Blight Intervention/Strategic Reutilization Program.
$8,605,832 spent$6,985,802 earned by the program86% of program spendingRedevelopment of distressed Properties; Strategic Reutilization, Trusted Partners, Responsible Landlord. A land reutilization program, conducted in collaboration with local government, and often involving the strategic conveyance of formerly blighted properties to responsible parties for re-use, all while balancing the competing goals of maximizing future tax revenues and other public benefits with the recovery of expenditures from grant and disposition proceeds.
$970,000 spent$859,550 earned by the program10% of program spendingLandfill. A land reutilization project warranting special oversight and involving a major environmental remediation with the extenstion of the recovery dependent upon disposition after a long-term hold.
$427,840 spent$76,128 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,003,672.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $16M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 61% · 2019 37% · 2020 34% · 2021 13% · 2022 5% · 2023 78% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Central Ohio Community Improvement’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Curtiss L Williams
Executive Director
Board chair
Cheryl Brooks-Sullivan
Ex-Officio MemberCOCIC Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Central Ohio Community Improvement’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Central Ohio Community Improvement's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Central Ohio Community Improvement runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Central Ohio Community Improvement
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Central Ohio Community Improvement: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Central Ohio Community Improvement?
- Central Ohio Community Improvement (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being CAMPUS PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Central Ohio Community Improvement have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Central Ohio Community Improvement.
- Who is the largest funder of Central Ohio Community Improvement?
- CAMPUS PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Central Ohio Community Improvement find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing