Ohio · Public charity
Athens County Foundation
The ATHENS COUNTY FOUNDATION builds on the strengths of our community, advancing participation and collaboration to address long standing challenges and pursue extraordinary opportunities.
- $742k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $594k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,827
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $98,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Athens County Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $594k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $646k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $440k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $521k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $402k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $277k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $263k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $311k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hockingathensperry Community Action | $405,989 | 8 | 0% |
| Rural Action Inc | $281,468 | 7 | 1% |
| Ohio University | $175,475 | 5 | n/a |
| Athens County Children Services | $140,876 | 6 | n/a |
| Bluedot Coworking | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Se Ohio | $128,343 | 6 | 1% |
| OUTDOOR RECREATION COUNCIL OF APPALACHIA (ORCA) (Inactive) | $95,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio Valley Museum of Discoveryinc | $92,800 | 3 | 31% |
| Integrated Services for Behavioral Health | $90,153 | 6 | 0% |
| Athens County Historical Society | $88,110 | 6 | 10% |
Show all 88 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Athens County Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Osteopathic Heritage Foundation of Nelsonville · Osteopathic Heritage Foundation · Community Foundations Inc · OhioHealth Corporation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · O'Bleness Charles - Foundation
How this is measured
About Athens County Foundation
- How much does Athens County Foundation give?
- Athens County Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $594,470, out of $741,662 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Athens County Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are Athens County Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hockingathensperry Community Action ($406k), Rural Action Inc ($281k), Ohio University ($175k).
- Does Athens County Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Athens County Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc, Peoples Bank Foundation.
- Where is Athens County Foundation based?
- Athens County Foundation is based in OH.
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