· Private foundation
Aimee and Lulu Seidel Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT MKC | $10,000 |
| OPERA WESTERN RESERVE | $7,000 |
| BOARDMAN LIONS FOUNDATION | $6,648 |
| UNITED WAY | $6,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| THE ENGLISH CENTER | $5,000 |
| BOARDMAN SCHOOLS FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $5,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL INVESTORS HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,500 |
| MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| EASTER SEALS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PMPROJECT MKC4× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +21%
- OWOPERA Western Reserve Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +0%
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- HRHEART REACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $15k
- MVMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
- OWOH WOW CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 solidify and accelerate downtown youngstown's resurgence as a center of employment, higher education, government services & culture, and to serve as a catalyst for overall economic development in the mahoning valley.
To provide training to electrical apprentices in mahoning and trumbull counties, and through that training to provide skilled workers to area employers.
The Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra provides exceptional musical education through a variety of performance opportunities for young musicians of all backgrounds in an inclusive community of learning and growth.
Dedicated to providing residents and visitors a safe, clean, and well maintained facility that promotes health, education, and recreation through a network of quality programs, activities, and amenities.
To provide leadership and business services that promote the growth of our members and enhance the essential partnership between economic development and education to improve our quality of life.
The organization's mission is to establish effective programs that mobilize and utilize bothpublic and private resources in a proactive and concerted attack on poverty in muskingum county, ohio and its surrounding areas by establishing and…
To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.
The united way of youngstown and the mahoning valley seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.
To provide testing, treatment, and counseling for individuals who are deaf or hearing impared or have difficulty speaking properly.
The mission of youngstown umadaop, inc., is to prevent and reduce the misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and other behavioral health issues across the lifespan by delivering innovative, culturally appropriate, evidence-based…
To inspire a sense of wonder in the falls of the ohio region through education, preservation, and exploration.
To help organize and self-regulate those who deal with real estate in the mahoning and columbiana county areas of ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties and the most unlike its peers is Helms Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 PROJECT MKC ↗
- Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC ↗
- Who funds ON TARGET OUTFITTERS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE URSULINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Helms Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF MAHONING TRUMBULL AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · J Ford Crandall Depository · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The William B Pollock Company Foundation · W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005 · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley · William B Pollock II & Kathryn Challis
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 Aimee and Lulu Seidel Trust 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.
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