· Private foundation
David Meade Massie Trust
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.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 THE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIOTO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MAJESTIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD A HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUB ↗
- Who funds VETERANS IN TRANSITION INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David Meade Massie Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Meade Massie Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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