· Public charity
Black River Education and Wellness Foundation
To promote and support health and wellness initiatives which will contribute to the improvement of life for the residents of the greater lorain county area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OBERLIN FOOD HUB | $35,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION NORTHERN OHIO CHAPTER | $35,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY - UNITED WE SWEAT PROGRAM | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 30% of your 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.
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.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
To provide basic necessities at no cost to those in need.
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Lorain County and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOREST CITY FOOD COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION NORTHERN OHIO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Online 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: Community West Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Norton Family Foundation · Lakeland Community Foundation · Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn · Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Black River Education and Wellness 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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