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Ashland County Community Foundation
Public charity making grants for charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 102 grants below total $2,749,546 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,312,620 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $563,074 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $273k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHLAND CITY SCHOOLS | $204,734 |
| ASHLAND FAMILY YMCA | $200,456 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $172,731 |
| FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE | $140,990 |
| RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS | $125,000 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $118,410 |
| ACCESS | $101,729 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY PARK DISTRICT | $91,644 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,645 |
| ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $75,028 |
| UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY | $59,163 |
| OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY | $50,250 |
| NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL | $45,223 |
| HILLSDALE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $39,787 |
| APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH C | $37,306 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 34 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $824k · revenue +181%
- AUASHLAND UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +13%
- RTRAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC5× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +36% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- BIBUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
- RCRICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -39%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $56k · revenue +9%
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.
Services to the elderly
The ashland county fair promotes area tourism and provides recreation for the area residents. the fair also promotes 4-h programs and allows local farmers, 4-h members, and the general public to complete projects crafting to raising…
Public charity making grants for charitable purposes. grants are made from endowment funds established by many donors. encourage philanthropy and enhance quality of life in ashland county. support charitable activities through grant…
To further economic development in the ashland county area of wisconsin.
To improve the quality of life in the ashland area, through, but not limited to the promotion, encouragement and support of education, health and well-being of families & individuals, preservation of nature, history, and the promotion of…
To create an environment which supports existing business expansion and retention and to recruit new businesses and industry.
Dedicated to the welfare of animals through rescue, care and placement into permanent and loving homes.
Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…
To make contributions which are used to support the social and economic impact in the local community.
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Providing services to the elderly
To plan and carry out the Junior Fair Livestock sales at the Ashland County Junior Fair. These sales include the diary auction market rabbits market poultry market goats market steers market hogs market lambs baby beef sales.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Ashland County and the most unlike its peers is Mohican Historical Society 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 31 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 157 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 FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASHLAND COUNTY PARK DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND PARENTING PLUS ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHURCH COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEOS DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Samaritan Hospital Foundation · The Norma Foundation · Richland County Foundation · United Way of Ashland County · Hugo H & Mabel B Young Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · The Westfield Insurance 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 Ashland County Community 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.
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