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Armco Park Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$54kPhilanthropy$16kYouth Development$10kHealth$9kCommunity Improvement$6kHuman Services$4kEducation$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $14,681, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,741 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$350
Median grant
3
States reached
$161k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cincinnati Reds Organization$7,500
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Foundation$1,300
Cincinnati Reds Community Foundation$603
Boy Scouts of America Troop 944$600
St. Xavier High School Athletics$500
Middletown High School Baseball$500
Bobbleheads for Charity$500
Northern Kentucky Restaurant Association (Homeless Children)$400
United Coalition for Animals$400
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired$350
People Working Cooperatively$345
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Cincinnati$315
Anthony Munoz Foundation$300
Hilton Head Island Recreation Center$264
Middletown Fine Arts$250
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 24 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$80k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+101%

Still filing today

33%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    Springboro Touchdown Club
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +106%
  • AM
    Anthony Munoz Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +113%
  • UC
    UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • AH
    Atrium Hospital Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • DD
    Dayton Dragons Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +101%
  • TB
    Tom Browning Scholarship Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation
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2
The Cincinnati Foundation for the Aged
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3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
4
The Huntington-Akron Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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6
Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Inc
Health
7
Columbus Cares for Cats
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8
Simmons Mesothelioma Foundation
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9
Cincinnati Shoulder and Elbow Research and Education Foundation Inc
Health
10
Canfield Heritage Foundation

Museum

Arts & Culture
11
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
12
Cincinnati Action for Housing Now

Ballot issue political action committee advocating for levy to support the homelessness population in Ohio.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Dragons Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Springboro Touchdown Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cincinnati Reds Organization: $23,691 · OtherCincinnati Reds OrganizationCincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Foundation: $13,223 · OtherCincinnati Reds Hall of Fame FoundationSt. Xavier High School Athletics: $6,150 · OtherSt. Xavier High School AthleticsCincinnati Reds Community Foundation: $5,344 · OtherCincinnati Reds Community FoundationBig Brothers/Big Sisters of Cincinnati: $3,315 · OtherCatholic Social Services in Miami Valley: $2,950 · Other+37 more: $22,688 · Other+37 moreCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,910 · Human ServicesDayton Dragons Foundation: $1,100 · Human ServicesSpringboro Touchdown Club: $3,800 · Recreation & SportsDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,900 · HealthThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $750 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $750 · HealthCANCER ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTY: $245 · HealthAnthony Munoz Foundation: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $2,200 · AnimalsPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $1,095 · Housing & Shelter
Other$77,361Human Services$4,010Recreation & Sports$3,800Health$3,645Youth Development$3,500Animals$2,200Housing & Shelter$1,095

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpringboro Touchdown Club: $3,800 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAnthony Munoz Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,910 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $2,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDayton Dragons Foundation: $1,100 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $1,095 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTY: $245 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Bremen Historic Association: $240 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MATT HAVERKAMP FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Springboro Touchdown Club ↗
  • Who funds Anthony Munoz Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Dayton Dragons Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Scripps Howard Fo…The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Duke Energy FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Scripps Howard FoundationOH15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Scripps Howard Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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How do I get to Armco Park Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Armco Park Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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