Ohio · Nonprofit
CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438,896 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($5,204,212). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence does
Mission
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care service and other services that assist families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o24-hour crisis, information & refferal hotline:choices receives thousands of calls each year from people living in fear from the threat of domestic violence. To meet this incredible demand, choices provides a crisis, information, and referral hotline that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This resource is the only one of its kind in central ohio and is available to anyone in need of domestic violence information or assistance. Hotline staff are trained to listen, ask questions, discuss alternatives, and ultimately refer callers to specific programs and services based on their individual needs.temporary shelter:the fact that choices offers temporary shelter is well known, but the location is kept confidential for safety purposes. A dedicated staff has guaranteed its operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since 1977, making it the longest-running domestic violence shelter in central ohio. Counseling:choices offers problem-solving counseling, support, resources and referrals to those victims and survivors of domestic violence who do not require residential services. Day or night, services ranging from individual sessions to educational groups…
$6,201,295 spent$42,946 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,201,295.
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 2024 to 2025, from $22M to $27M (+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 6% · 2018 20% · 2019 25% · 2020 16% · 2021 37% · 2022 39% · 2023 62% · 2024 49% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Rachel Lustig
President & CEO
Board chair
Andrew Meslow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $776k → $1.3M.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 52% · 2019 28% · 2020 60% · 2021 72% · 2022 78% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.1M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Ashland Assisted Living Inc · exempt
- Centerburg Housing Inc · exempt
- Delaware Housing Inc · exempt
- Faith Mission Inc · exempt
- Good Shepherd Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
- CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438,896 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($5,204,212). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $10,438,896 in grants to CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,204,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing