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Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio

Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,071 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS BAR FOUNDATION ($312,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$918k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$662k
Net assets
$335k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio does

Mission

Devoted to reducing the harmful physical, emotional and economic effects of unmanaged or mismanaged conflict on culturally diverse individuals, families, organizations and communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. For the period January 1,2024 to December 31, 2024, CMS Housing Stability/Homelessness Prevention Program provided services to a total of 2,359 Tenants with a total of 6,073 Household Members.1923 Tenants w/4949 Household Members were provided the Programs Tenant/Landlord Eviction Prevention Mediation Services and an additional 436 tenants with 1,124 Household Members were provided the programs FREE 2.5 Tenant Eviction Prevention Education Workshop.The agencys Tenant/Landlord Conflict Mediation Services provided disputing tenants and landlords involved in eviction related disputes with access to specially trained, impartial mediators by phone as well as on site daily at Franklin County Municipal Court where more than 21,000 eviction proceedings were filed (more than in any other area of Ohio).98% of the tenants provided the programs tenant/landlord mediation services were able to reach an agreement with the landlord that allowed for the tenant to maintain stable housing. Approximately 72% of those settlements were Pay and Stay agreements that allowed the tenant to get caught up on overdue back rent so that they could remain in their current housing and avoid the need for emergency…

    $879,897 spent$910,938 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $879,897.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($852k) Expenses 100 ($759k) Net assets 100 ($165k)2021 Revenue 85 ($724k) Expenses 89 ($677k) Net assets 188 ($311k)2022 Revenue 107 ($913k) Expenses 119 ($906k) Net assets 192 ($317k)2023 Revenue 100 ($852k) Expenses 113 ($859k) Net assets 189 ($312k)2024 Revenue 108 ($918k) Expenses 118 ($895k) Net assets 202 ($335k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (108)Expenses (118)Net assets (202)Peer revenue range

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 $429k to $526k (+22%).

$375k
$404k
$443k
$429k
$526k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 70% · 2021 95% · 2022 73% · 2023 85% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
’20
$47k
’21
$7k
’22
−$7k
’23
$22k
’24
5.3
months of
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

Shelley Whalen

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed88887
Joined·+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·0004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $70k.

1 of 8 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.

From the IRS filings of Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 Mediation Services of Central Ohio leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 Mediation Services of Central Ohio.

47%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 47% · 2019 41% · 2020 63% · 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio: 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 Mediation Services of Central Ohio?
Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,071 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS BAR FOUNDATION ($312,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $662,071 in grants to Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio?
COLUMBUS BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $312,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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