Coalition on Homelessness and
Columbus, OH · EIN 31-1189029. Reported 59 grants totalling $15.2M to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Coalition on Homelessness and, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J20Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 24% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $64,929. Half of what it reported fell between $18,540 and $240,483; the smallest was $7,481 and the largest $2,757,702. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Children and Families Inc | Alliance, OH | $3,655,904 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center | Columbus, OH | $3,004,663 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Strategies to End Homelessness Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $1,693,840 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Homeless Families Foundation | Columbus, OH | $1,459,548 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Shelter Board | Columbus, OH | $1,295,384 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emerald Development and Economic | Cleveland, OH | $533,204 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coleman Professional Services Inc | Kent, OH | $454,813 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Family Promise of Butler County | Hamilton, OH | $452,730 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Homefull | Dayton, OH | $397,425 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Zepf Center | Toledo, OH | $270,346 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Licking County Coalition for Housing | Newark, OH | $258,486 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Action Program Commission of the Lancaster-Fairfield County | Lancaster, OH | $212,330 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sheltered Inc | Springfield, OH | $146,981 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Action Prgm Corp of Washington-Morgan Counties Ohio | Marietta, OH | $145,031 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Action Agency of Columbiana County Inc | Lisbon, OH | $128,934 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| West Ohio Community Action Partnership | Lima, OH | $124,863 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ohio Domestic Violence Network | Columbus, OH | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great Lakes Community Action Partnership | Fremont, OH | $111,409 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oneeighty Inc | Wooster, OH | $109,499 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry | Cleveland, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Vincent De Paul Social Services Inc | Dayton, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwestern Ohio Community Action Inc | Defiance, OH | $78,375 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood Properties Inc | Toledo, OH | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Star House Foundation | Columbus, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stark Housing Network Inc | Canton, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sojourners Care Network | Mcarthur, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc | Columbus, OH | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shelter Care Inc | Tallmadge, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tlc Homelessness Board | Toledo, OH | $17,284 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Miami Valley Housing Opportunities Inc | Dayton, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Greater Toledo | Toledo, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbus Coalition for the Homeless | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mahoning County Tresurer | Youngsttown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pregnant With Possibilities Resource Center | Maple Heights, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Side Catholic Center | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appleseed Community Mental Health Center Inc | Ashland, OH | $9,816 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio | Cleveland, OH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 40 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Alliance for Children and Families
RAPID REHOUSING & HOMELESS PREVENTION - Strategies to End Homelessness
MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR RAPID REHOUSING & HOMELESS PREVENTION AND EMERGENCY SHELTERING FUNDS - Community Shelter Board
MUTIPLE GRANTS FOR RAPID REHOUSING & HOMELESS PREVENTION AND EMERGENCY SHELTERING FUNDS - Homefull
MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR RAPID REHOUSING & HOMELESS PREVENTION AND EVICTION RISK MITIGATION - Ohio Domestic Violence Network
EMERGENCY SHELTERING FUNDS - Joseph's Home
SHARED HOUSING MINI-GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | $11.8M | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $3,442,075 | $46,258 |
| 2023 | 3 | $30,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $64,929 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Coalition on Homelessness and's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 175 South Third Street 580, Columbus, OH, 43215.
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