Ohio · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC
COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($315,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Columbus Ceo Collective LLC does
Mission
To build financial independence within the black business community through our collective focus on growth, development, improving financial viability, sustainability and well-being, for black entrepreneurs who own and operate black-owned business enterprises headquartered in central ohio, with measurable outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Columbus ceo collective is a collaboration of business leaders focused on advancing a shared vision of creating an inclusive economy in central ohio. The organization carries out its exempt purpose by supporting the growth of black-owned businesses, enhancing financial well-being for individuals and families, assisting with closing the wealth gap,revitalizing communities, and contributing to a healthier regional economy. During 2025, the organization continued to make measurable progress toward achieving its exempt purpose by strengthening member engagement and advancing mission-driven initiatives that support black-owned businesses and community economic development. Despite numerous challenges resulting from the changing landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, columbus ceo collective remained committed to its mission and continued to serve as a consistent platform for collaboration, connectivity, and shared action. Throughout the year, columbus ceo collective successfully executed several mission-aligned events and convenings, including meetings, forums, and roundtables designed to support relationship-building, business collaboration, and the exchange of…
$415,045 spent$386,552 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $415,045.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $186k to $482k (+159%).
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: 2024 89% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Elizabeth Joy
CEO
Board chair
Alex Shumate
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC’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 COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC: 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 COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC?
- COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($315,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $315,000 in grants to COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS CEO COLLECTIVE LLC 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 2023–2025), 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