Columbus Fashion Initiative

What it says it does

“Our goal is to support the creation and growth of creatives and fashion based business through multiple facets. First, we look to educate our members and the community with skills that add value to their brands and increase their knowledge as a professional. We are constructing facilities that house industrial-grade equipment, such as sewing machines, sergers, DTG, fabric and screen printers...”From the organization's Form 990 for the year ending Dec 2023, as written (including spelling); all-capital text shown in normal capitalization.

Columbus Fashion Initiative finances

From the annual returns the group files with the IRS (Form 990, or the shorter Form 990-EZ for smaller groups), 4 filed years. Net assets are what it owns minus what it owes; management and general is office, admin and insurance cost. A dash means not reported (the short form does not ask for employees or volunteers). Each figure links to that year's return. A year is left out when no return is in the IRS e-file data; that does not mean the group was inactive.

Where the money goes, year ending Dec 2023

• Programs $1,517,036 (88%)
• Management and general $184,268 (11%)
• Fundraising $13,569 (1%)

Where the money comes from, year ending Dec 2023

• Gifts and grants $1,477,762 (98%)
• Program fees $24,649 (2%)
• Investment income $8 (0%)
• Other $1,502 (0%)

People: 6 employees and 10 volunteers reported for the year ending Dec 2023. Counts only; BackPR does not publish names of officers or staff.

Revenue trend: Growing. Revenue went from $567,303 (year ending Dec 2020) to $1,503,921 (Dec 2023), about +38% a year.

Growth label: we compare total revenue on the oldest and the newest return shown above. Growing means revenue rose by more than 10% a year on average, Shrinking means it fell by more than 10% a year, and Steady means a change between -10% and +10% a year. The rate is the compounded yearly average between the two returns, so it hides ups and downs in between (see the table). We only label groups with returns at least a year apart and at least $5,000 of revenue on the oldest one. This is our own calculation, not an IRS rating or a judgment of quality.

Source: IRS Form 990 Series Downloads (the returns open on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, which republishes the IRS files). Figures are as the organization filed them. Ohio nonprofit.

How it compares

9 of 173 youth development nonprofits in Columbus when sorted from largest to smallest revenue. This shows size only, not quality. Groups with no reported revenue are listed last.

Size: revenue of $1,854,679 is in the top 10% of the 449 youth development nonprofits in Ohio that report revenue to the IRS (the city count above also includes groups with none). The median is $155,735.

Our analysis of the IRS Business Master File (posted October 13, 2026), using each group's latest reported revenue. Groups are sorted by revenue and split into ten equal bands, using all Ohio groups of this type (Youth development, which covers several IRS activity codes). Size only, not a rating.

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