THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION

EIN 316044264 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$1.11B
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$251.29M
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$110.36M
received into DAFs
Payout rate
22.7%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
1,499
funds held at year end
Average account
$738K
assets per fund

At 22.7%, this sponsor paid out above the 12.5% median for sponsors holding more than $10 million.

DAF assets by year

$927.8M
FY2019
$975.7M
FY2020
$1.29B
FY2021
$1.14B
FY2022
$1.11B
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$99.2M
FY2019
$134.4M
FY2020
$135.6M
FY2021
$218.8M
FY2022
$251.3M
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 7,709 grant lines totalling $1.11B across 2019–2024 — $144K per line.

$97.4M of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 9% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Ohio State University Financial Aid OffiEIN 311145986 OH$67.0M
Huntington FoundationEIN 311681542 OH$65.1M
Greater Horizons runs a DAF programEIN 200849590 MO$55.7M
Kipp Columbus FoundationEIN 262472707 OH$40.2M
Santa Barbara Foundation runs a DAF programEIN 951866094 CA$20.6M
Food & Water Watch runs a DAF programEIN 320160439 DC$19.6M
Gigis Shelter For DogsEIN 814422755 OH$19.2M
Columbus Symphony Orchestra IncEIN 316402408 OH$17.4M
Columbus Museum Of ArtEIN 314379447 OH$17.2M
Nationwide Children'S HospitalEIN 311036370 OH$15.3M
PelotoniaEIN 824997087 OH$14.7M
Alcohol Drug Addiction And MentalEIN 316400067 OH$14.6M
I Know I CanEIN 311229135 OH$13.9M
New Albany Community FoundationEIN 311409264 OH$13.7M
King Baudouin Foundation United States runs a DAF programEIN 582277856 NY$13.2M

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.