· Private foundation
County North Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bowling Green State University | $2,000 |
| Kent State University | $2,000 |
| The Ohio State University | $2,000 |
| The University of Toledo | $2,000 |
| Bowling Green State University | $2,000 |
| Bowling Green State University | $2,000 |
| Kent State University | $2,000 |
| Defiance College | $2,000 |
| Kent State University | $2,000 |
| The Ohio State University | $2,000 |
| Bowling Green State University | $2,000 |
| Heidelberg University | $2,000 |
| Ohio University | $2,000 |
| The University of Toledo | $2,000 |
| Bowling Green State University | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of County North Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNORTHWEST STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +293%
- TUThe University of Findlay5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +32%
Funded once
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.
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORTHWEST STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization County North Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from County North Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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