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Clinton County Foundation

We serve as a community resource, connect donors to needs and support charitable organizations in their work for strong clinton county communities.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$788kEducation$668kPublic Benefit$570kRecreation & Sports$480kPublic Safety & Disaster$434kPhilanthropy$325kCommunity Improvement$299kArts & Culture$227kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $776,273, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,005,608 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $229,335 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $405k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $348k
$26,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLANCHESTER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$120,160
CLINTON MASSIE ATHLETICS BOOSTERS$94,551
CITY OF WILMINGTON PARKS AND RECREATION$82,716
CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$50,926
WILMINGTON COLLEGE$45,000
CLINTON MASSIE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$43,573
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY$40,000
VILLAGE OF MARTINSVILLE$37,790
BLANCHESTER MARION TWP JOINT FD$36,000
WILMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$31,500
CLINTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (EMA)$27,200
THE MURPHY THEATRE$26,600
CLINTON COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT (DEPT)$24,880
CHESTER TOWNSHIP$18,425
CLINTON COUNTY TRAILS COALITION$16,775
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WILMINGTON HOPE HOUSE: $14k → 12%OHIO LIVING COMMUNITIES DBA OHIO LIVING CAPE MAY: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 33 repeat orgs$914k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$3.0M
$737k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+146%

Still filing today

21%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +41%
  • MT
    MURPHY THEATRE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $165k · revenue +51%
  • WC
    Wilmington College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF NEW VIENNA
    one grant, 2021 · $89k
  • CT
    CLARK TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $74k
  • BC
    BLANCHESTER COMMUNITY SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Clinton Arts Center
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2
Clinton County Women's Center Inc

Provide crisis intervention, counseling, and shelter; support and empowerment; education, information, and referrals to victims of sexual and domestic violence and to those significant in their lives; and outreach related to the issues of…

Human Services
3
Clinton County United Way Inc

The clinton county united way is a not-for-profit voluntary health and welfare agency established to benefit the clinton county community with the primary focus on the maintenance of health, education, and welfare services.

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4
Central Historical Society
Arts & Culture
5
Clinton County Economic Partnership

Economic development, expansion, job creation and to foster a climate for growth and prosperity in clinton county, pennyslvania.

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6
Clinton County Economic Advancement

To promote the economic development of clinton county, indiana

Community Improvement
7
Clinton County Leadership Institute

Leadership development

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8
Clinton County Housing Coalition

To Empower clients to acheive housing stability and self sufficiency and coordinating services for Clinton County families and Individuals

Housing & Shelter
9
Main Street Clinton

To stimulate economic development in the program area through promotion and design for historic preservation.

Community Improvement
10
Clinton County Foundation

We serve as a community resource, connect donors to needs and support charitable organizations in their work for strong clinton county communities.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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12
Elizabeth City Downtown Inc a Revitalization Corporation

To serve the entire community by acting as a catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Elizabeth City and the waterfront while preserving its historical and architectural character.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clinton County Community Action Program; the most unlike its peers is Clinton-Massie Athletics Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $298,686 · OtherCLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMCITY OF WILMINGTON: $286,767 · OtherCITY OF WILMINGTONVILLAGE OF BLANCHESTER: $247,088 · OtherVILLAGE OF BLANCHESTERBLANCHESTER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $157,354 · OtherWILMINGTON CITY SCHOOLS: $150,599 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $125,890 · OtherFRIENDS OF CLARKSVILLE: $115,500 · Other+64 more: $1,963,479 · Other+64 moreCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION: $200,725 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,658 · PhilanthropyMURPHY THEATRE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $165,000 · Arts & CultureWilmington College: $83,457 · EducationWright State University Foundation Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationClinton-Massie Athletics Boosters: $94,551 · Youth DevelopmentENERGIZE CLINTON COUNTY: $82,900 · Community ImprovementCLINTON COUNTY SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS: $51,100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,345,363Philanthropy$213,383Arts & Culture$165,000Education$148,457Youth Development$94,551Community Improvement$82,900Housing & Shelter$51,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $298,686 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION: $200,725 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMURPHY THEATRE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $165,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY: $97,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetClinton-Massie Athletics Boosters: $94,551 over 1y, 42% of budgetWilmington College: $83,457 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENERGIZE CLINTON COUNTY: $82,900 over 7y, 21% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS: $51,100 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetWright State University Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST OF GOLD OF WILMINGTON INC: $19,263 over 2y, 32% of budgetWilmington Hope House A Safe Place For Women And Children LLC: $14,347 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,658 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO LIVING COMMUNITIES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHope House Christian Counseling Center: $7,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOperation Cherrybend: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
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 CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MURPHY THEATRE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Clinton-Massie Athletics Boosters ↗
  • Who funds Wilmington College ↗
  • Who funds ENERGIZE CLINTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CLINTON COUNTY SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds Wright State University Foundation 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.

Peoples Bank Foundati…Matthew 25 Ministries…United Way of Clinton…Columbus FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Peoples Bank FoundationOH15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peoples Bank Foundation · Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · United Way of Clinton County · Columbus Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clinton County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clinton County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Clinton County Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clinton County Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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