How much did CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$370kEducation$174kEnvironment$101kHuman Services$60kHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$30kCrime & Legal$15kArts & Culture$3kOther$950k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

valley

2019

valley

2020

valley

2021

valley

2022

valley

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $6k
$10k–50k6 grants · $95k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC$200,000
WHEELING CENTRAL$40,000
YMCA OF WHEELING$15,000
OHIO VALLEY WELLNES COALITION$10,000
THINK PINK$10,000
MOUNDSVILLE VETERANS HONOR GUARD$10,000
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE$10,000
AMERICAN LEGION POST #1$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY (OVGH HISTORY GROUP)$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.1M · 20 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +137% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+137%

-61%

Still filing today

50%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

PhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

OF
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +576%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY
5× · 2018–2022 · $320k · revenue +71%
TL
THE LINSLY SCHOOL INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +72%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARISH
one grant, 2023 · $5k
WJ
WHEELING JAMBOREE INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k
TG
THE GREAT STONE VIADUCT HISTORICAL EDUCATION SOCIETY
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc

Evaluate and fund identified community needs

Philanthropy

Arc of Appalachia

Our Mission: To protect the rich diversity of life within North America's Great Eastern Forest. Our Work: We acquire and steward wild lands in the Appalachian heartland. We create sanctuaries where people can connect with the natural…

Recreation & Sports

United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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Orrville United Way Inc

The orrville united way improves lives by uniting people and resources to advance the common good in orrville, dalton and marshallville located in eastern wayne county ohio. our goal is to create long-lasting changes to prevent future…

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Overbrook School for the Blind

Education for persons with visual impairments and other challenges.

Education

Ohio County Community Foundation Inc

Provides stewardship of donated gifts, addresses community issues and makes gifts in various fields.

Philanthropy

Ohio Education Association

Continuous improvement of public education while advocating for members & their learners.

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Ohio Association of Community Action

Provide training to the ohio community action agencies.

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School Choice Ohio Inc

School choice ohio educates parents on their educational options and advocates for the expansion of quality options for every child on a state-wide basis.

Education

Oberlin Early Childhood Center

The organization operates a childhood center in oberlin, ohio for up tp 100 children ages six weeks to five years old. the center provides a unique, child centered campus for anyone in need regardless of financial ability.

Human Services

Cliff Valley School Inc

Education of children from preschool through eighth grade.

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Maumee Valley Country Day School

Maumee valley country day school cultivates an inclusive community of intellectual excellence where learners creatively explore their passions and boldly inspire positive change in the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley and the most unlike its peers is Great Stone Viaduct Historical Education 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.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

8/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$1,380,000Other$997,300Philanthropy$370,000Education$173,950Environment$101,000Human Services$60,000Health$35,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for the Ohio ValleyWV26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · W E Stone Foundation · Paul W Exley Family Foundation Inc 2668 · Stamp Charitable Fund · Robert L& Helen E Levenson Family Charitable Tr · Hess Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Nutting 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 organisation CHRIS HESS 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 550738608 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chris Hess Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chris Hess Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chris Hess Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chris Hess Foundation?

More from the funding graph