Ohio · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,023 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($398,525). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $399k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $856k
- Net assets
- $396k
What Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus does
Mission
To strengthen the capacity of community development corporations (cdcs) to serve as leaders in neighborhood revitalization initiatives that meet community needs in a way that measurably improves residents' quality of life. Stimulate system, development and change resulting in strong, durable cdcs capable of accomplishing specific demonstrable and significant objectives in the areas of affordable housing, economic development, community safety and other aspects of community building.promote the community development industry as an effective vehicle for transforming columbus' distressed neighborhoods into vibrant, sustainable communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The collaborative was established in 1992 and became an independent nonprofit organization in 1998. The program's purpose is to strengthen the capacity of community development corporations (cdcs) to develop affordable housing and revitalize distressed communities.
$301,533 spentof which $265,006 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $301,533.
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 2023 to 2024, from $394k to $485k (+23%).
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 56% · 2018 68% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 50% · 2023 58% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ian Labitue
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Martin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $77k → $25k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 45% · 2019 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 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
96% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS?
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,023 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($398,525). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $856,023 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $398,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER COLUMBUS 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 6 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