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M I Homes Foundation

Columbus, OH · EIN 31-1254013. Reported 37 grants totalling $1,455,314 to 36 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$1,455,314granted, 2023-2024
36organizations funded
$2,017,053assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. M I Homes Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Nationwide Childrens Hospital FoundationColumbus, OH$500,000112024
Americas CharitiesChantilly, VA$206,100112024
Faces of ResilienceColumbus, OH$100,000112024
HomeportColumbus, OH$100,000112024
New Albany Community FoundationNew Albany, OH$60,000112024
Harmony Project Productions IncColumbus, OH$50,000112024
Midohio Food CollectiveColumbus, OH$50,000112024
Women for Economic and Leadership DevelopmentWesterville, OH$40,000222024
Cristo Rey Columbus High SchoolColumbus, OH$35,000112024
United Way of Central OhioColumbus, OH$35,000112024
Housing First Minnesota FoundationRoseville, OH$25,000112024
LifetownNew Albany, OH$25,000112024
Ohio Governors Residence & Office FoundationColumbus, OH$25,000112024
Mason Deerfield Community Development CorporationMason, OH$20,114112024
Flying Horse FarmsMt Gilead, OH$20,000112024
Osuccc JamesColumbus, OH$20,000112024
American Heart AssociationColumbus, OH$15,000112024
The Hillel Foundation at OSUColumbus, OH$15,000112024
Big Brothers Big Sisters Central OhColumbus, OH$10,000112024
Community Housing Network IncColumbus, OH$10,000112024
Community Shelter BoardColumbus, OH$10,000112024
Komen Columbus Race for the CureWesterville, OH$10,000112024
The Womens Fund of Central OhioColumbus, OH$10,000112024
Yeshiva Beth YehudahSouthfield, MI$10,000112024
CapaColumbus, OH$6,000112024
Columbus Metropolitan LibraryColumbus, OH$6,000112024
American Red CrossColumbus, OH$5,000112024
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa BayTampa, FL$5,000112024
Marburn AcademyColumbus, OH$5,000112024
Simon Kenton Council Boy ScoutsColumbus, OH$5,000112024
The 2ND and 7 FoundationColumbus, OH$5,000112024
The Center for Healthy FamiliesColumbus, OH$5,000112024
YWCA ColumbusColumbus, OH$5,000112024
Jcc of Greater ColumbusColumbus, OH$3,600112024
Local MattersColumbus, OH$2,500112024
Ohio Womens Bar Assoc and FoundationColumbus, OH$1,000112024

1 of 36 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 89 grants to individuals totalling $4,666,800 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
3 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20231$20,000$20,000
202436$1,435,314$12,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 85% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$1.2M
Virginia
$206K
Michigan
$10K
Florida
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

Columbus Foundation17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America12 shared recipientsColumbus Jewish Foundation11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from M I Homes Foundation's own Form 990-PF 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: 4131 Worth Ave Ste 500, Columbus, OH, 43219. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-1254013 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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