· Private foundation
David Meade Massie Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| SCIOTO VALLEY YOUTH LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF KINGSTON | $10,000 |
| J216 MINSTRY | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HARRISON TWP FIRE & RESCUE | $10,000 |
| BROOKSIDE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE CAVALIERS CLUB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN OHIO FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| SPRINGBANK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST WESLEYAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSS COUNTY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Ross County6× · 2019–2025 · $196k · revenue +56%
- TATHE ASSISTANCE HOUSE OF ROSS COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +102% · 25% of their budget
- HCHOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- RHROSS HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SVSCIOTO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -3%
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 ross county social service council provides support for disadvantaged teens in the greater ross county ohio community.
The ross county water company, inc. is a non-profit, user-member owned corporation, that provides quality residential and commercial water service to approximately 15,504 customers in areas of ross, pike, pickaway, vinton, hocking, &…
Seeds of hope, inc. has been organized to address the needs of the homeless population in and around ross county, ohio. it does so by offering but not limiting itself to emergency sheltering, transitional housing and a faith-based…
The mission is to work within the local community to reduce poverty and to revitalize low income families.
The mission is to advance, encourage, and promote the industrial, economic, commercial and civic development of ross county, ohio and the city of chillicothe.
Maintain historical society
To collect and display items of historical nature relating to athens county with community access to genealogical researc.
An animal rescue and adoption organization serving the greater ross county ohio community
The mission of the clark county historical society is to collect, preerve, and interpret resources which provide understanding and appreciation of clark county's heritage, and to relate to the community's past to the present and its future.
Mobilize the church to transform lives and the community in the name of jesus christ.
Restoration of buildings in ragersville, ohio
To preserve the history of ashland county, ohio, and to provide educational opportunities to read about and experience said history and heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Scioto Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caboose Maintenance and Restoration Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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 157 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 Young Mens Christian Association of Ross County ↗
- Who funds THE ASSISTANCE HOUSE OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIOTO VALLEY YOUTH LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BRYANT BEANS BUTT INC ↗
- Who funds ADENA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S HOPE PREGNANCY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds CAT ROUNDUP RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCIOTO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAJESTIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD A HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS IN TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUB ↗
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: Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundations Inc · United Way of Ross County Inc · Adena Health System · Columbus Foundation · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau · South Central Power Company Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 David Meade Massie Trust 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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