Ohio · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD (Ohio) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,596,124 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($8,614,220). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Community Shelter Board does
Mission
The Community Shelter Board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter: emergency shelter beds are provided for men, women, and families at several sites throughout columbus and franklin county. Emergency shelters provide a safe and dignified environment. Shelter operators work to help people end their homeless crisis quickly, connecting people to rapid re-housing services, employment and job training, support services, medical care, and housing resources. 6,849 people including 1,651 children, 568 people age 62+, 330 veterans, and 151 expectant mothers, were provided with safe emergency shelter while experiencing homelessness. Out of these, 1,756 people (26%) exited and achieved permanent housing.
$19,926,747 spentof which $21,726,769 as grants35% of program spendingRapid re-housing: while in shelter, individuals and families receive assistance to obtain and maintain permanent housing. Single adults and families are linked to intensive services, such as employment and job training, medical care, behavioral health, and housing to promptly stabilize them in housing. People also receive support after they are housed to assure long-term stability. 2,790 people including 89 expectant mothers, 538 parenting youth families, and 371 veterans in shelter, received help to find stable housing. Overall, 70% exited and secured permanent housing.
$10,429,923 spentof which $8,542,129 as grants19% of program spendingPrevention: families and individuals facing homelessness are connected to work and job training, tenant education, and relocation services to quickly resolve their housing crisis and keep them stably housed. Households receive temporary utility and rent assistance to retain their housing. 3,335 people including 91 expectant mothers, 610 parenting youth families, 189 veterans and 2,445 family members, received prevention services to remain stably housed and not go to a homeless shelter. Overall, 83% maintained their housing. They remained stably housed and did not enter into a homeless shelter.
$3,820,864 spentof which $2,663,957 as grants7% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing: people experiencing long-term or repeated homelessness who have disabilities are provided an apartment with health care, employment, and other supports to assure they remain in stable housing. 3,887 people including 525 veterans, 44 transitional age (18-24) youth, and 960 people ages 62+, were kept safely housed and healthy in permanent supportive housing,
$22,034,905 spentof which $19,641,879 as grants$228,269 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,212,439.
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 2019 to 2020, from $22M to $26M (+22%).
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 84% · 2018 86% · 2019 84% · 2020 78% · 2021 89% · 2022 91% · 2023 89% · 2024 91% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Shannon Isom
President/CEO
Board chair
Jon Cardi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $3.9M.
17 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SHELTER BOARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 SHELTER BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 SHELTER BOARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 51% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 36% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
62% of COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
84% of COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$175.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$104k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: 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 SHELTER BOARD?
- COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD (Ohio) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,596,124 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($8,614,220). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $26,596,124 in grants to COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,614,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD 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 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing