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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 133 grants below total $3,614,094 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,156,779 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $542,685 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 $10k36 grants · $262k
- $10k–50k79 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $317,215 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $143,000 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $140,454 |
| MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $135,860 |
| CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN | $125,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY | $109,394 |
| YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $103,250 |
| OHIO LIVING HOLDINGS DBA OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE | $103,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE HEALTH EDUCATION INC | $102,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $76,000 |
| ANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC | $69,799 |
| BOARDMAN LOCAL SCHOOLS | $65,813 |
| THE RYAN GIAMBATTISTA HELMS FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| THE BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC | $57,000 |
| MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST | $55,690 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 37 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $632k 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
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE2× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +36%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $751k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CFCANFIELD FAIR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -8%
- MCMILL CREEK METROPARKSone grant, 2021 · $76k
- BTBOARDMAN TOWNSHIP PARKone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To enable African Americans and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance parity power and civil rights.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
To provide opportunities to individualsover 50 years of age in tuscarawas county, ohiothrough healthy living, independence, physical andmental health, education, and recreational programs
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
To provide leadership and business services that promote the growth of our members and enhance the essential partnership between economic development and education to improve our quality of life.
Provide financial services to its members.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties and the most unlike its peers is Mcctc Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
165 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. 165 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OHIO LIVING HOLDINGS ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXX-XX-XXXX ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOARDMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WARREN REDEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HEALTH EDUC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - TRUMBULL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL MOBILE MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN FAMILY MISSION ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: 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
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 Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley 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.