Ohio · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,071 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,310,664). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Returnlocalportfolio match
- The John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundationshared funders
- East 66th Street Services Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 18% · 2021 24% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $741k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION 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
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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 UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Returnlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 110 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- East 66th Street Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighborhood Progress Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homebase Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Growth Opportunity Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Borror Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Community Development Finance Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC?
- UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,071 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,310,664). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,368,071 in grants to UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION INC?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,310,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ORGANIZATION 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.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing