· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Union Count
The charitable organization assists individuals and organizations with fullfilling their charitable goals.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UNION COUNT’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 37 grants below total $709,658 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,677,941 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $968,283 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 $10k17 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $119,250 |
| MARYSVILLE EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL | $90,582 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $70,000 |
| UNION COUNTY FAIR | $35,000 |
| FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| MARYSVILLE EAGLES AUXILIARY | $30,000 |
| CORNERSTONE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH | $25,835 |
| CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY | $24,750 |
| MARYSVILLE UPTOWN THEATRE LLC | $20,850 |
| UNION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARN | $18,750 |
| JONATHAN ALDER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRIC | $18,300 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,500 |
| ECHO INC | $14,500 |
| HAMBURG FIREWORKS DISPLAY INC | $12,500 |
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, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
- UCUnion County Family YMCA6× · 2019–2024 · $511k · revenue +15%
- MAMARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $336k · revenue +151%
- NCNUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING5× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SMSHOW MANAGEMENTone grant, 2019 · $300k
- TMTHE MARYSVILLE UNION CLUBHOUSEone grant, 2023 · $135k
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +36%
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.
The goal is to promote all types of agriculture in the county and surrounding areas during the year and finalizing with the seven day fair.
To support local county fair
Our Ohio Communications (OOC), Inc. has a primary focus of providing educational programming. One of Ohio Farm Bureau's strategic goals is consumer outreach to make agriculture relevant to that audience.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Provides funds for medical equipment and other significant capital needs of mercy memorial hospital in urbana, ohio.
The Organization serves the Union County, Indiana youth enrolled in 4H club work for the purposes of development and improvement of the countys youth involved in 4H.
To provide access to quality primary health care to the medically underserved population of the tri-state ohio valley.
To promote research within the soybean industry and to strengthen the industry's position in the marketplace.
To manage, organize and host a county fair. To organize and conduct an annual fair for the 4-H and FFA members as well as local and surrounding community members.
This organization strives to preserve and record the history of union county, and it strives to give the union county community an appreciation of the area's history and culture through education and operation of a museum.
Inspiring innovation and cultivating investment in ohio's farm and food community.
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Brave Men 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 99 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 Union County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARE TRAIN OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE UPTOWN THEATRE LLC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF THE MARYSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALL OHIO BALLOON FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Ohio County IND Agricultural Society of ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UNION COUNT ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RURAL ELECTRIC CO-OP 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: United Way of Union County Inc · Columbus Foundation · United Way of Delaware County · Bernice R Shanklin Charitable Foundation · Oneohio Recovery Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Union Count 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.