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Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley

The community foundation is the leader and advocate for strategic philanthropy, partnering with donors to anchor a permanent and growing endowment making investments in the mahoning valley that improve the quality of life for all residents.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
133
Itemized grants FY2024
103
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$3.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$317,215
Organizations funded a year
48 to 103
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving131$3.6M28%
FY2023103$2.6M25%
FY202288$2.0M24%
FY202165$1.8M28%
FY202068$1.8M53%
FY201952$2.9M31%
FY201852$1.2M40%
FY201748$1.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.1MHuman Services$2.3MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHousing & Shelter$910kPublic Benefit$798kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youngstown State University$1,159,2158n/a
Grove City College$1,037,95421%
The Catholic University of America$883,00080%
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley$751,45883%
City of Youngstown$750,0006n/a
Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley$574,625510%
Ohio Living Holdings$545,54080%
Westminster College$505,45430%
Youngstown State University Foundation$350,00021%
Beatitude House Inc$348,55087%
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All grantees of Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youngstown State University$1,159,2158n/a
Grove City College$1,037,95421%
The Catholic University of America$883,00080%
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley$751,45883%
City of Youngstown$750,0006n/a
Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley$574,625510%
Ohio Living Holdings$545,54080%
Westminster College$505,45430%
Youngstown State University Foundation$350,00021%
Beatitude House Inc$348,55087%
Students Motivated by the Arts Inc$336,111817%
Mahoning Valley Historical Society$301,98047%
Boardman Chamber of Commerce$300,111831%
Warren Redevelopment and Planning Corporation$236,950394%
The English Center$235,044845%
Inspiring Minds$218,92864%
Compass Family & Community Services$215,12571%
Walsh University Inc$215,00050%
Henry H Stambaugh Auditorium Assoc$193,92057%
Western Reserve Health Educ Inc$173,77241%
Trumbull County Educational Service Center$173,5008n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron$170,25030%
Angels for Animals Inc$169,99961%
United Way of Trumbull County$166,47787%
Society of St Vincent de Paul - Trumbull County Inc$160,800516%
Mahoning County Educational Service Center$159,0798n/a
Trumbull Mobile Meals Inc$157,50079%
The Salvation Army$147,0007n/a
Warren Family Mission$141,00054%
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership$138,60062%
Youngstown Symphony Society$135,85047%
Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation$135,10081%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$126,95640%
Heart Reach Neighborhood Ministries$125,90064%
Diocese of Youngstown$113,3508n/a
The Youngstown Playhouse$109,38667%
The Youngstown Edison Business Incubator$107,00061%
Boy Scouts of America$104,00070%
John F Kennedy Catholic School$103,3296n/a
Ursuline Sisters Mission$103,200419%
Canfield Fair Foundation$100,000122%
Economic Action Group Incorporated$94,000327%
Community Legal Aid Services$88,00060%
Youngstown Cityscape Inc$85,02546%
YWCA Mahoning Valley$84,07051%
Northeast Ohio Adoption Services$79,00051%
Mill Creek Metroparks$75,7831n/a
Helms Foundation$75,00034%
Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc$71,000319%
Hospice of the Valley Inc$70,00020%
Mahoning Valley College Access Program Inc$69,600511%
Midlothian Free Health Clinic Inc$64,500455%
Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley$64,05850%
Project Mkc$63,70043%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio$63,55951%
Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries Inc$63,50040%
Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past$63,190230%
Ohio Urban Renaissance$62,866334%
Trumbull County Historical Soc$62,37745%
Society of St Vincent de Paul - Northeast Ohio District Council Inc$60,00024%
Protestant Family Service of the Greater Youngstown Area Inc$58,00049%
The Brightside Project Inc$57,0001n/a
OPERA Western Reserve Inc$51,000610%
Tri County Jobs for Ohio's Graduates$50,00030%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$50,00020%
Action Inc$46,3002n/a
Cadence Care Network$45,25040%
Home for Good Reentry Resource Referral Center$45,000424%
Yellow Brick Place$45,000350%
Humility of Mary Housing Inc$44,20031%
Brite Energy Innovators$43,20134%
Young Men's Christian Association of Youngstown Ohio Inc$42,50030%
Poland Forest Foundation$42,5003n/a
Sister Jerome's Schools Inc$42,30043%
Gods Warehouse Inc$41,295451%
United Returning Citizens Inc$41,20048%
OCCHA Inc$41,05035%
Autism Society of Mahoning Valley$40,141314%
Warren City Health District$40,0001n/a
Nikkis House$40,00039%
Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership$40,00040%
Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties$39,83640%
Reuben McMillan Free Library Association$39,60020%
Oh Wow the Roger & Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science & Tech$37,50042%
Meridian Healthcare$37,50030%
Animal Charity of Ohio Inc$36,10021%
Fine Arts Council of Trumbull Cty Inc$35,700325%
Potential Development Program Inc$35,62540%
Axess Family Services Inc$35,0001n/a
Mahoning Veterans Memorial Inc$34,1334n/a
Warren Symphony Soc Inc-Warren Philharmonic Orches$33,442416%
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc$33,25050%
Young Women's Christian Association of Warren Ohio$33,000231%
Sight for All United Inc$33,00025%
Finer Things Academy Inc$32,7503n/a
Interfaith Home Maintenance Service Inc$32,50024%
Veterans' Outreach$32,00031%
Cortland-Bazetta Historical Society & Museum$32,0003n/a
Trinity United Methodist Church$30,5004n/a
University of Dayton$30,00020%
Shepherd of All Gods Children$30,00032%
Thrive Mahoning Valley$29,700217%
Mill Creek Metroparks Foundation$29,63412%
Boardman Township Park$29,5211n/a
Ohio History Connection$29,2501n/a
Warren Gridiron Club$28,144232%
Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning Valley$27,00031%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$26,90020%
Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association)$25,00012%
Trumbull County Children Services$25,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc$25,00030%
Fairhaven Foundation$25,00036%
Philanthropy Ohio$25,00011%
Oak Hill Collaborative Inc$25,00019%
Jubilee Urban Renewal Corporation$25,0001n/a
Golden String Inc$25,00022%
LIT Youngstown$24,60038%
Holy Family Home$24,0212n/a
Will Respect Inc$22,5003n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$22,50020%
Alta Care Group Inc$22,50010%
Youngstown Committee on Alcoholism Inc$22,15020%
Leadership Mahoning Valley Inc$22,041313%
Hold Your Horses$20,00024%
Mahoning County Board of Elections$20,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc$20,00020%
Kool Boiz Foundation$20,000214%
Mind Body & Soul Asset Development Center Inc$20,0001n/a
Power of the Arts Inc$20,00026%
Direction Home of Eastern Ohio$20,00020%
North-Mar Church of Christian & Missionary Alliance$19,3851n/a
Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley$19,00032%
Bcc Full Spectrum Community Outreach Foundation Corporation$18,0002n/a
Help Hotline Crisis Center$18,00020%
Russellville Schools$18,0002n/a
Youngstown Rotary Foundation Ima 7635002558$17,70026%
Northeast Homeowners Concerned Citizens Associatio$17,500223%
Carter House$17,50021%
Safe Zones$17,5002n/a
Youngstown City School District$17,1163n/a
Butler Institute of American Art$17,10030%
Limitless Ambition Inc$17,00028%
Grace Ame Church Nursing Guild$17,0002n/a
Journalism Funding Partners$16,79511%
Warren Forward$16,7501n/a
Saint Teresa of Calcutta Parish$16,5002n/a
Boston Avenue Neighborhood Association (Bana)$16,0002n/a
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$16,00020%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$16,00010%
Dba Millcreek Children's Center$15,5001n/a
Meals on Wheels of Mahoning County Inc$15,27326%
Down Syndrome Association of the Valley$15,25024%
Thrive 10 10 Inc$15,100212%
Trumbull Community Action Program$15,00010%
Youngstown Community Food Center Inc$15,00015%
St Augustine Society Inc$15,00010%
Blue Star Counseling and Wellness Inc$15,00014%
Youngstown Lifeguard Academy$15,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Youngstown$15,00022%
Flying High Inc$15,00011%
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges$12,00020%
Ronald McDonald House Akron$12,0001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In$12,00010%
Big Brothers - Big Sisters of Mahoning Valley Inc$11,00024%
Associated Neighborhood Centers$10,50013%
1898 Foundation Inc$10,000169%
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc$10,00020%
Our Community Kitchen Inc$10,00014%
Equality Ohio Education Fund$10,00011%
Youngstown Community Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Southside Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Paisley House$10,00011%
Andrea Mahone Foundation$10,000113%
Coleman Professional Services Inc$10,00010%
Youngstown City School District$10,0001n/a
Clothed in Strength$10,00017%
Trumbull Family Fitness$10,00012%
Acld Inc$10,00010%
Boardman Booster Club Inc$10,00012%
Bettys Angels Inc$10,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$10,00010%
Youngstown State University Athletic Department$10,0001n/a
Building Neighborhoods of Youngstown$10,0001n/a
St Edward Church$10,0001n/a
Triyou Cares$10,0001n/a
Someplace Safe Inc$10,0001n/a
Promise - Community Hub$9,5001n/a
Replay for Kids$7,61513%
Skills USA Inc$7,6001n/a
Bess Purpose Incorporated$7,5001n/a
Hopewell Theatre Inc$7,5001n/a
Community Volunteers Council$7,500110%
Friends of the Summit$7,50017%
Youngstown Promise Neighborhoods$7,5001n/a
Quintessence Three Jjjs$7,5001n/a
Evolve Innovation Center$7,5001n/a
Broadway Recovery Services$7,50014%
Friends of the Mahoning River$7,0001n/a
Boardman Lady Hoopsters$7,0001n/a
The Mill Creek Memorial Park Association$6,00012%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund$6,00011%
The City Club of Cleveland$6,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$6,00010%
McCtc Foundation Inc$6,0001n/a
Friends of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County$6,000111%
Service Never Sleeps$6,0001n/a
Glenbeigh$6,0001n/a
Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Services$6,00015%
Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation$5,70011%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$5,1251n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul Mahoning District Council Inc$5,00013%
Children's Hunger Alliance$5,00010%
Access Health Mahoning Valley Inc$5,00014%
Difference Makers Inc$5,0001n/a
Fresh Coast Communities dba Greenprint Communities$5,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrove City College: $1,037,954 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Catholic University of America: $883,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley: $751,458 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetRescue Mission of Mahoning Valley: $574,625 over 5y, 10% of budgetOhio Living Holdings: $545,540 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWestminster College: $505,454 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYoungstown State University Foundation: $350,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBeatitude House Inc: $348,550 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetStudents Motivated by the Arts Inc: $336,111 over 8y, 17% of budgetMahoning Valley Historical Society: $301,980 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetBoardman Chamber of Commerce: $300,111 over 8y, 31% of budgetWarren Redevelopment and Planning Corporation: $236,950 over 3y, 94% of budgetThe English Center: $235,044 over 8y, 45% of budgetInspiring Minds: $218,928 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCompass Family & Community Services: $215,125 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWalsh University Inc: $215,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHenry H Stambaugh Auditorium Assoc: $193,920 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetWestern Reserve Health Educ Inc: $173,772 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center of Akron: $170,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAngels for Animals Inc: $169,999 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Trumbull County: $166,477 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul - Trumbull County Inc: $160,800 over 5y, 16% of budgetTrumbull Mobile Meals Inc: $157,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetWarren Family Mission: $141,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTrumbull Neighborhood Partnership: $138,600 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetYoungstown Symphony Society: $135,850 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetYoungstown Neighborhood Development Corporation: $135,100 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Ohio: $126,956 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHeart Reach Neighborhood Ministries: $125,900 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetThe Youngstown Playhouse: $109,386 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetThe Youngstown Edison Business Incubator: $107,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America: $104,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUrsuline Sisters Mission: $103,200 over 4y, 19% of budgetCanfield Fair Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetEconomic Action Group Incorporated: $94,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCommunity Legal Aid Services: $88,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYoungstown Cityscape Inc: $85,025 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetYWCA Mahoning Valley: $84,070 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNortheast Ohio Adoption Services: $79,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHelms Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetInspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc: $71,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetHospice of the Valley Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMahoning Valley College Access Program Inc: $69,600 over 5y, 11% of budgetMidlothian Free Health Clinic Inc: $64,500 over 4y, 55% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley: $64,058 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject Mkc: $63,700 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio: $63,559 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYoungstown Area Goodwill Industries Inc: $63,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 154.

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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.

Youngstown Fdn GeneralOH176.2× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Youngstown Fdn General · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Western Reserve Health Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char

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.

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About Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley

How much does Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley give?
Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley reported 133 itemized grants totaling $3,614,094, out of $4,156,779 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (13%), Health (9%).
Who are Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Youngstown State University ($1.2M), Grove City College ($1.0M), The Catholic University of America ($883k).
Does Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Youngstown Fdn General, The Raymond John Wean Foundation, Premier Bank Foundation.
Where is Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley based?
Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley is based in OH.

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 227 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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