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GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC

GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,600 to it, the largest being OHIO CAPITAL IMPACT CORPORATION ($327,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$193k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$378k
Net assets
$36k
2/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Greater Columbus Community Helping Hands Inc does

Mission

To promote and engage educational, civic, recreational and wellness activities which enhance the lives of youth and the greater columbus community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Greater columbus community helping hands, inc. Dba helping hands for youth, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that consists of a team of professional staff, consultants, and volunteers committed to service, programs and activities which enhance educational opportunities for youth.

    $161,948 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,948.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2018 Revenue 82 ($193k) Expenses 91 ($205k) Net assets 47 ($10k)2019 Revenue 87 ($206k) Expenses 71 ($161k) Net assets 264 ($55k)2020 Revenue 36 ($85k) Expenses 36 ($81k) Net assets 284 ($60k)2021 Revenue 61 ($144k) Expenses 59 ($133k) Net assets 335 ($70k)2022 Revenue 167 ($396k) Expenses 140 ($314k) Net assets 727 ($153k)2023 Revenue 129 ($306k) Expenses 164 ($369k) Net assets 423 ($89k)2024 Revenue 82 ($193k) Expenses 135 ($304k) Net assets 172 ($36k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (135)Net assets (172)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 $89k to $172k (+94%).

$24k
$13k
$55k
$60k
$70k
$153k
$89k
$172k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$12k
’18
$46k
’19
$4k
’20
$11k
’21
$82k
’22
−$64k
’23
−$111k
’24
6.8
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.

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Listed12129111010109
Joined·+0+0+9+5+2+0+2
No longer listed·0376203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $63k → $11k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC’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

GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC.

87%
largest funder
93%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 79% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% — 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

25% of GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
CO

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−58% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 47%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
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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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC?
GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,600 to it, the largest being OHIO CAPITAL IMPACT CORPORATION ($327,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $377,600 in grants to GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC?
OHIO CAPITAL IMPACT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $327,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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