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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of CLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $776,273 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,005,608 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $229,335 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $348k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
- CCCLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM6× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +41%
- COCITY OF WILMINGTON3× · 2021–2024 · $287k
- VOVILLAGE OF BLANCHESTER3× · 2021–2023 · $247k
Funded once
- VOVILLAGE OF NEW VIENNAone grant, 2021 · $89k
- CTCLARK TOWNSHIPone grant, 2023 · $74k
- CWCLINTON WARREN JOINT FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
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…
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.
To promote the economic development of clinton county, indiana
Economic development, expansion, job creation and to foster a climate for growth and prosperity in clinton county, pennyslvania.
Clinton county community foundation, inc. was organized for the purpose of providing community leaders with the opportunity to help meet local needs by distributing income to charities and community organizations within clinton county,…
To stimulate economic development in the program area through promotion and design for historic preservation.
Leadership development
To Empower clients to acheive housing stability and self sufficiency and coordinating services for Clinton County families and Individuals
To help the elderly maintain their health and independence as long as possible.
Granting student scholarships and contributions to college
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clinton County Foundation and 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 80 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Clinton County 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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