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Cambridge Kiwanis 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Guernsey County | $18,000 |
| Lifewise Academy Guernsey | $10,000 |
| Cambridge Kiwanis Club - Block Grant | $10,000 |
| Buckeye Trail Band Boosters | $8,221 |
| Old Washington Volunteer Fire Dept | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Muskingum University Music Theatre Camp | $3,900 |
| Cambridge YMCA | $2,500 |
| Ohio Arts & Crafts Foundation | $1,500 |
| First Christian Church | $1,500 |
| Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center | $1,240 |
| Hospice of Guernsey | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- TLTHE LIVING WORD OUTDOOR DRAMA INC4× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
- YSYOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FUNDING FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +26%
- DVDICKENS VICTORIAN VILLAGE OF CAMBRIDGE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- LWLIVING WORDone grant, 2022 · $27k
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GHGUERNSEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $22k
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.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
To increase awareness of amish and anabaptist history through the collection, preservation, and presentation of items relating to amish, mennonite, and anabaptist history, with a special focus on the amish settlement in geauga county and…
Historic preservation of the Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Gardens.
We are a museum of the history of the Firelands and early settlers during the 1800s in Lyme Township near Bellevue, OH.
The organization's primary purpose is to provide an atmosphere in which young men and women are able to escape the troubles and pressures of this world and focus on their relationship with god.
Compassionate end of life care assuring dignity for body, mind, and spirit.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Gateway House provides safe, affordable housing for men in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction
Church affiliated bible camp teaching children about the bible. provide lodging and food for weekly summer camps and year-round weekend retreat programs.
Crisis pregnancy counseling and support services
Judson care center's mission, as a charitable, christian organization, is to use its resources to meet the housing, health care, social, physical and spiritual needs of its constituents without regards to race, color, creed, national…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Living Word Outdoor Drama Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Cambridge Collectors 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 40 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
17 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. 17 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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF GUERNSEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING WORD OUTDOOR DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Cambridge Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FUNDING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO ARTS AND CRAFTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKENS VICTORIAN VILLAGE OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Center ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds GUERNSEY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds National Cambridge Collectors 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: Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Peoples Bank Foundation · United Way of Guernsey and Noble Counties Inc · Columbus Foundation · 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 Cambridge Kiwanis 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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