· Public charity
Adena Health System
The ADENA HEALTH SYSTEM's mission is "called to serve our communities the vision is "to be our region's most trusted partner for healthcare."
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $567k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GARDEN FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER | $65,375 |
| ROSS COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT | $64,794 |
| ROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION | $60,425 |
| UNION-SCIOTO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,500 |
| HOPE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS | $46,162 |
| THE BUCK FIFTY INC | $35,000 |
| ROSS COUNTY YMCA | $33,180 |
| UNITED WAY | $31,500 |
| WELLSTON CITY SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| WAVERLY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $25,500 |
| WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE CITY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| ADENA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| ZANE TRACE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| GREENFIELD EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MIAMI TRACE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHADENA HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +18% · 43% of their budget
- TGThe Garden Family Advocacy Center8× · 2017–2024 · $513k · revenue +56%
- RCROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $479k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MCMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue -8%
- OCOHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT FAIRS HIGHLAND COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +245%
- CCCHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate the fair and manage the grounds to provide the youth of clark county with the opportunity to grow in knowledge and develop character through participation in the fair.
The Ross County Historical Societys mission is to preserve, educate, and promote the study of the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, and the surrounding region.
Conducts delaware county fair which includes providing and maintaining facilities to support junior & senior fair competitions, horse races, amusement rides and all other facilities needed for this nature of program
Operation of the washington county fair under the direction and guidelines of the ohio county & independent agricultural society.
Operation of Agricultural Fairgrounds
The Clermont County Fair was founded over 165 years ago to promote preserve and perpetuate the local agricultural heritage. This is accomplished by providing a venue for agriculture and education.
To operate the wood county fair, maintain the grounds, and rent the grounds for events that are scheduled for the benefit of the citizens of wood county, ohio in accordance with the ohio department of agriculture.
County fair
County fair
The organization is authorized by the state of ohio through the ohio department of agriculture to provide a county fair in lawrence county, ohio.
The object of the society is and shall remain the improvement and advancement of agriculture, horticulture, livestock, domestic and mechanical arts and the entertainment of its membership and patrons, and to operate an agricultural fair…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Ross County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ADENA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Garden Family Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Ross County ↗
- Who funds THE BUCK FIFTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE ROSS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Pike County Agricultural Society ↗
- Who funds JACKSON AREA FESTIVALS & EVENTS ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY JUNIOR FAIR SALE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ↗
- Who funds PICKAWAY ADDICTION ACTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CHILLICOTHE OHIO ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SHINE ON CHILLICOTHE ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT FAIRS HIGHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WHERE WAZ EYE ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUB ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: David Meade Massie Trust · Community Foundations Inc · Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Ross County Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · South Central Power Company Foundation · Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Share Our Strength · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adena Health System funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.