The Columbus Foundation’s Center for Corporate Philanthropy is designed to help both established and new businesses make their charitable investments as cost-effective and efficient as possible. Tailored to each unique business and offering expert community knowledge, the Center helps businesses develop and implement a custom corporate giving program that reflects the company's values. Services include Corporate Donor Advised Funds, Emergency Assistance Programs, Scholarship Programs, matching gift programs, community research, and administrative processing of donations and grants.

For 75 years, The Columbus Foundation has been the vehicle through which thousands of people have expressed their ideals and optimism through philanthropic investment in our community. Because of their steadfast generosity, we are able to respond to unforeseen community challenges, promote innovation in the nonprofit sector, and invest in the future well-being of our city.

Explore grant and funding opportunities with the Foundation and our Supporting Foundations. Easy access to grant applications, deadlines, The Giving Store, Better Together, nonprofit capacity building, marketing tools, and creating an endowment fund for your organization.

Investments are made in a broad range of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen and improve our community.

It was a mutual love and respect for nature, conservation, the arts, and more that brought Louise (Omie) Warner, M.D., and Clyde W. Gosnell, Jr. together. The couple, married in 2001, has since collectively forged a path and secured a legacy that will positively impact generations to come. The two are the recipients of the 2017 Leadership in Philanthropy award.

Pat Wynn Brown and Steve Brown, married 46 years and longtime residents of Clintonville, have utilized the arts as one way to illustrate both their kindness and desire to help others.

Throughout the pandemic, LifeCare Alliance has also continued to provide meals to individuals and families through the Columbus Cancer Clinic and Project OpenHand, a program for men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS in central Ohio and their families. Thanks to Columbus Foundation donors, and generous corporate support, LifeCare Alliance was able to shift resources within the organization and increase the number of meals being produced, all while keeping its core purpose, “to serve those in need, through compassionate, responsive, quality care.”

For the important role it plays in bringing stability to those in need, especially with eviction prevention efforts during the pandemic, The Columbus Foundation recognizes IMPACT Community Action as the 2021 Columbus Foundation Award honoree.

Mid-Ohio Food Collective (MOFC) was founded in 1980 with the mission to feed hungry people in our community. Since then, the organizations shifted to focus on getting to know those they serve better beyond procuring and delivering food, instead focusing also on developing ways to create a hunger-free, healthier community. 2020 was a year unlike any other MOFC has seen, and the organization distributed what amounts to 170,000 meals a day, a 25–30 percent increase over the previous year.