Indiana · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION
COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,909,506 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($2,228,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Columbus Learning Center Management Corp D/B/A Community Education Coalition does
Mission
The community education coalition (cec) is a partnership of education, business, and community stakeholders focused on aligning and integrating our community learning system, economic development, and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The cec serves as the primary backbone organization that facilitates the development of the community and regional learning system, especially the eight counties from which students are drawn to the airpark columbus college campus. The airpark campus further developed as a result of the original formation of the economic opportunity through education by 2015 initiative, funded by a lilly endowment grant of $26 million in 2007, and a follow-on grant of $2.1 million. Portions of these grants enhanced the airpark education programs and facilities. Included in the follow-on grant was the establishment of civiclab in 2012 (a program of cec). Civiclab formed to strengthen the greater columbus, indiana area and its use of "stakeholder thinking and ways of working together. Civiclab creates the tools and frameworks that form the underlying foundation for the practice of community collaboration, teaches these tools broadly across the country, and then brings the learning back to improve the greater community of columbus, indiana.
$9,656,306 spentof which $2,300,000 as grants$4,814,980 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,656,306.
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 2019 to 2020, from $34M to $38M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2023 4% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kathy Oren
President/CEO
Board chair
Jim Schacht
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $43k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $3.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION’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 LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“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
0% of COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
57% of COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Indiana University Columbus · exempt
- In Workforce Development (Workone) · exempt
- Hf of Bartholomew County Inc · exempt
- Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation · exempt
- Bartholomew County Board of Commissioners · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION: 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 LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION?
- COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,909,506 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($2,228,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $5,909,506 in grants to COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION?
- Lumina Foundation for Education Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,228,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 10 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