· Public charity
Bryan Area Foundation Inc
To support charitable organizations in the williams county, ohio area.
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 30 grants below total $489,991 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,161,883 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $671,892 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 $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $53,171 |
| CITY OF BRYAN PARKS AND RECREATION | $44,682 |
| LILY CREEK FARMS | $42,500 |
| VILLAGE OF WEST UNITY | $31,941 |
| VILLAGE OF EDGERTON | $25,000 |
| WILLIAMS COUNTY PARKS | $20,564 |
| SAUDER VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| ACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB | $19,758 |
| UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY | $19,058 |
| WILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL | $17,027 |
| WILLIAMS CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,531 |
| SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY | $15,000 |
| WILLIAMS COUNTY YMCA | $14,742 |
| FOUR COUNTY CAREER CENTER | $13,350 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,176 |
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 (FY17–17, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- BABRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $504k · revenue +944% · 81% of their budget
- WCWILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $352k · revenue +168%
- WCWILLIAMS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIO3× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +244% · 77% of their budget
Funded once
- WCWILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATERone grant, 2023 · $206k · revenue -81% · 69% of their budget
- WCWILLIAMS COUNTY PORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $120k
- BGBRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATIgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $111k · revenue +42%
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.
Historical society for fredericktown ohio
The organization's purpose is to provide volunteer fire fighting services.
To provide, promote, assist, and facilitate a community-based structured process of counseling, socialization, recreation, and educational assistance to youth and their families who have been identified as in need of assistance in…
Organization strives to promote youth sports for ages 4 through 17 by combining elements of teamwork, competition, and athletics.
To enhance, promote, and serve the business communities of the city of williamsburg, virginia, james city county, virginia, the bruton district of york county, virginia, and the yorktown, virginia waterfront.
100 per cent volunteer national register in 2008 museum open and on display when events in progress open for the education and historical significance for all citizens
Provide funds for charities in area and support to local citizens.
To advance the interests of all individuals with williams syndrome throughout their lifespan by providing programming and resources, supporting research, promoting partnerships and connections, and ensuring that the infrastructure of the…
Provide than environment to develop baseball and softball skills in a environment that helps the player grow
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quailty of farm family-life
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bryan Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sara's Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 74 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 BRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds BRYAN AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds LILY CREEK FARMS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds SANDY CAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAUDER VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds BRYAN BASEBALL CLUB DBA BRYAN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Williams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MONTPELIER PARK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS AND WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB OF BRYAN CITY ↗
- Who funds BRYAN DEVELOPMENT 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: United Way of Williams County · Premier Bank Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Killgallon Foundation · Defiance Area Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bryan Area Foundation Inc 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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