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Foundations That Fund Human Services in Ohio

Imperigo has identified 1,150 funders that made 17,465 grants totaling $1.5B to 1,518 human services organizations in Ohio, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Human Services Funding in Ohio

Total granted $1.5B
Funders 1,150
Grants 17,465
Organizations funded 1,518

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Community Shelter Board
31 grants to 7 organizations · largest $11.0M · through 2024 · 64.6% of their giving
$120.3M
2. Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
1,532 grants to 184 organizations · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 10.8% of their giving
$131.5M
3. United Way of Greater Cincinnati
374 grants to 62 organizations · largest $1.8M · through 2024 · 29.8% of their giving
$61.9M
4. Jewish Federation of Cleveland
95 grants to 30 organizations · largest $16.8M · through 2024 · 11.6% of their giving
$50.4M
5. Ohio's Hospice Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $14.6M · through 2024 · 78.6% of their giving
$25.2M
6. United Way of Central Ohio Inc
349 grants to 43 organizations · largest $782K · through 2024 · 21.4% of their giving
$18.4M
7. Beech Acres Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $7.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$17.6M
8. The Foundation for the Children's Home of Cincinnati
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $5.7M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$16.4M
9. The Ability Center of Greater Toledo Supporting Organization
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $3.6M · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$15.8M
10. Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging
30 grants to 6 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2024 · 59.1% of their giving
$13.4M
11. Columbus Foundation
943 grants to 160 organizations · largest $1.6M · through 2024 · 4.8% of their giving
$55.6M
12. The Cleveland Foundation
363 grants to 144 organizations · largest $2.5M · through 2024 · 5.8% of their giving
$42.7M
13. Sunshine Communities
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $12.4M · through 2020 · 85.0% of their giving
$12.4M
14. St Vincent De Paul Stores
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.6M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$12.1M
15. Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $3.3M · through 2023 · 13.8% of their giving
$14.2M
16. United Way of Greater Cleveland
70 grants to 27 organizations · largest $788K · through 2024 · 31.1% of their giving
$8.8M
17. The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
440 grants to 119 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 4.6% of their giving
$37.1M
18. Life Enriching Communities Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.2M · through 2024 · 46.0% of their giving
$7.6M
19. Benjamin Rose Trust Tw
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.7M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$7.4M
20. Br-Orville L Jones
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.6M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$7.2M
21. Community West Foundation
161 grants to 43 organizations · largest $400K · through 2025 · 21.7% of their giving
$7.1M
22. Ashland County Community Foundation
44 grants to 13 organizations · largest $3.1M · through 2024 · 44.8% of their giving
$6.7M
23. Upper Valley Medical Center
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $5.0M · through 2024 · 25.7% of their giving
$6.0M
24. Family Support Services of North Florida Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.9M · through 2021 · 15.4% of their giving
$7.8M
25. Lhs Foundation Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $4.2M · through 2024 · 99.4% of their giving
$5.9M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to human services work in Ohio, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 17 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering human services work, with an address in Ohio. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable human services funding in Ohio, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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