· Private foundation
Chris Hess Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC | $220,000 |
| YMCA OF WHEELING | $110,000 |
| WHEELING CENTRAL | $75,000 |
| THE LINSLY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION | $15,000 |
| ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOUNDSVILLE VETERANS HONOR GUARD | $10,000 |
| NEWBRIDGE ACADEMY FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY WELLNES COALITION | $10,000 |
| KING'S DAUGHTERS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +238%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +72%
- TLTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED4× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL PARISHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST #1one grant, 2024 · $5k
- WJWHEELING JAMBOREE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Provide training to the ohio community action agencies.
Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…
The mission of the ossining children's center is to provide high quality, educational childcare for children of working parents in a safe, supportive environment. we prepare our children for success in school with a basis for life-long…
Provide religious/educational child care for children 6 weeks through 11 years. it is the mission of faith child care to provide quality christian child care for families of the fox valley community in a nurturing environment that fosters…
To offer support to those recovering from addictions
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
To provide high quality child care.
Casa of ohio valley, inc.'s mission is to represent the best interests of children who enter the court systems as a result of dependency, abuse or neglect by recruiting, training, and supervising community volunteers.
Training for community action.
The Ohio Valley Youth Network (OVYN) unites churches, schools, businesses, and agencies to collaborate on events, programs, and services that improve the lives of local children and teens through Biblical principles across public, private,…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY WELLNESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT STONE VIADUCT HISTORICAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Stamp Charitable Fund · Eqt Foundation · Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust · Robinson S Parlin Trust · W E Stone Foundation · James B Chambers Memorial · Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chris Hess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chris Hess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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