· Private foundation
Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL PARK FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| KING'S DAUGHTER CHILD CARE CENTER | $185,000 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC | $150,000 |
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $107,500 |
| HEART OF OHIO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF WHEELING | $100,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $65,000 |
| LAUGHLIN MEMORIAL CHAPEL | $64,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC | $58,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| WHEELING YMCA | $50,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON | $50,000 |
| YWCA | $25,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL OHIO | $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 (FY23–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 24 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $148k · revenue +72%
- WCWHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $139k · revenue +13%
- TBTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- COCASA OF THE HEARTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +47%
- FBFRANKLIN BOARD OF TRADEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- GCGLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -51%
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.
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
The Child Development Center is a developmental day center designed to build the independence of exceptional children through high-quality early education and therapeutic services. It serves special needs children ages 2 to 5 from New…
Provide childd care services and preschool for children birth to age 12
Resource & referral child care
The organization operates a childhood center in oberlin, ohio for up tp 100 children ages six weeks to five years old. the center provides a unique, child centered campus for anyone in need regardless of financial ability.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
The organization empowers familities and improves children's lives through comprehensive early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services. the organization primarily offers services to children from birth to three years…
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
Provide pediatric care to underserved communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 Medical Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TASK FORCE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
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: The Driehorst Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Robert L& Helen E Levenson Family Charitable Tr · Chris Hess Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · American Electric Power Foundation
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 Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation 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.