Ohio · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION
COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,400 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($37,105). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Columbus Kiwanis Foundation does
Mission
The kiwanis club of columbus with its foundation is a diverse service organization of people with like interests who come together to make a substantive impact in strengthening and making central ohio a better place one-child at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation made contributions to numerous organizations in the community that serve a wide variety of core needs for example, some of the people and organization types assisted include the homeless, young children, music and arts, career guidance, education, and senior citizens. Tens of thousands of people are impacted through programs supported by the foundation.
$127,566 spentof which $127,566 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $127,566.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.2M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $18k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $96k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Kiwanis Club of Columbus Ohio). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION'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 $295 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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.
Organizations like COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Kiwanis Club of Columbus Ohio · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION: 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 KIWANIS FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,400 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($37,105). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $37,400 in grants to COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS KIWANIS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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