Ohio · Nonprofit
FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION
FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,970 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($230,725). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $930k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $556k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Final Third Foundation does
Mission
Final Third Foundation (f3) continues to grow and evolve in central ohio and through its partner organization in kenya. F3 uses the game of soccer to bring people together, educate, and enrich communities. What began with the likoni community football league in kenya has expanded into a network of programs that unify communities through soccer, literacy, wellness, and environmental learning. Guided by a global mindset and a focus on collective impact, f3 strengthens trust, belonging, and opportunity for youth locally and abroad.in 202425, f3 expanded access and deepened partnerships that strengthen youth development through sport and learning. Along-side key partners like nationwide childrens hospital, the organization helped launch the first columbus city schools region 3 elementary soccer and winter futsal leagues, serving more than 275 students. New collaborations began with whitehall recreation to support youth soccer and coaching education, while a five-year partnership with bexle
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Recreational leagues and community soccer: through the columbus east soccer association (cesa), f3 served more than 1,450 players across its 202425 seasons, supported by 196 volunteer coaches and 107 teams. Scholarships and subsidized fees totaled $51,780, with $27,700 in discounted field costs at pathways park. Partner organizations included bexley and whitehall recreation and parks department, ohio youth academy, columbus lions, columbus eagles, brice christian academy, galacticos, dl soccer academy, and columbus bilingual academy.soccer & literacy initiative: the early readers program reached 356 pre-k and kindergarten students across nine schools. F3s afterschool program served 1,140 students in grades 36 at 15 schoolsdouble the previous years reachwith projections to serve 2,000+ students in 202526. The vibrant vowels research study, conducted with columbus city schools and radboud university, examines the impact of color-coding text on reading fluency among 3rd5th graders at eight schools.environmental awareness and pathways park: the sprouts program engaged 160 students across three schools through gardening and environmental lessons. Collaborations with ohio state…
$704,817 spentof which $5,874 as grants$421,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $704,817.
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 2021 to 2022, from $32k to $138k (+325%).
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.
55% of FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% 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.
Board chair
Jonathan Ramsden
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $123k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 81% · 2022 54% · 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 42% 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
62% of FINAL THIRD 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 $210k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FINAL THIRD 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINAL THIRD 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 FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION?
- FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,970 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($230,725). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $555,970 in grants to FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINAL THIRD FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINAL THIRD 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 12 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