Ohio · Public charity
Defiance Area Foundation Inc
Fund projects to better the defiance county area
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,578
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $326,957
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Defiance Area Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $778k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $785k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $377k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $285k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $476k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $368k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Education$1.3MHuman Services$732kYouth Development$322kReligion$307kPhilanthropy$295kPublic Benefit$257kFood & Nutrition$245kCommunity Improvement$209kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Defiance County Ohio | $559,871 | 6 | 4% |
| Northeastern Local School District | $430,403 | 3 | n/a |
| Lily Creek Farms | $216,650 | 6 | 15% |
| Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc | $208,556 | 7 | 20% |
| Village of Hicksville | $204,186 | 2 | n/a |
| Defiance City Schools Foundation Inc | $196,748 | 7 | 98% |
| United Way of Defiance County Inc | $178,688 | 7 | 8% |
| Johnson Memorial Library Friends | $134,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Defiance College | $133,072 | 6 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University Foundatio | $132,250 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Defiance County Ohio | $559,871 | 6 | 4% |
| Northeastern Local School District | $430,403 | 3 | n/a |
| Lily Creek Farms | $216,650 | 6 | 15% |
| Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc | $208,556 | 7 | 20% |
| Village of Hicksville | $204,186 | 2 | n/a |
| Defiance City Schools Foundation Inc | $196,748 | 7 | 98% |
| United Way of Defiance County Inc | $178,688 | 7 | 8% |
| Johnson Memorial Library Friends | $134,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Defiance College | $133,072 | 6 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University Foundatio | $132,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Western Ohio | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Fort Defiance Humane Society | $119,378 | 7 | n/a |
| Ignite Academy | $105,138 | 6 | 15% |
| Foundation Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Swamp Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $80,040 | 2 | 2% |
| The Defiance Community Cultural Council Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 12% |
| St Pauls Umcark Preschool | $79,205 | 7 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Catholic School of Defiance | $76,747 | 6 | n/a |
| Lifewise Inc | $63,113 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Memorial Hospital Foundat | $62,509 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherwood United Methodist Church | $59,700 | 6 | n/a |
| Defiance Area Youth for Christ Inc | $54,228 | 3 | 7% |
| City of Defiance | $53,183 | 3 | n/a |
| Ayersville Local School District | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $44,469 | 4 | n/a |
| Defiance City Schools | $38,088 | 1 | n/a |
| Ayersville Education Foundation | $34,435 | 4 | 86% |
| The Defiance Softball Association Inc | $31,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fort Defiance Players | $31,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Defiance Saint Mary Parish | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio County and Independent Agricultural Societies | $28,101 | 4 | 1% |
| The Victory Center | $27,800 | 2 | 2% |
| Defiance Saint John the Evangelist Parish | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Defiance Elementary School PTO | $27,000 | 5 | 63% |
| Promedica Foundation | $26,100 | 2 | 0% |
| State of Washington | $25,640 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ayersville Athletic Boosters | $23,800 | 2 | 13% |
| Defiance Public Library | $23,397 | 3 | n/a |
| Central Local School District | $22,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Kaitlyn's Cottage Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Christ's Cupboard Ministries | $21,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunrise Community Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherwood Village | $19,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Health Professionals Inc | $18,530 | 1 | 0% |
| Conquer Childhood Cancer Now Inc | $17,321 | 3 | n/a |
| Defiance County Historical Society | $16,817 | 3 | 4% |
| Defiance Baseball Association | $16,234 | 1 | 13% |
| Saint John Lutheran Church | $16,129 | 2 | n/a |
| St Michael the Archangel Parish | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Christian Center Church Inc | $14,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Fairview Sports Association | $10,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Hicksville Exempted Village Schools | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Defiance Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pharaohz Rc | $9,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Child & Family Advocacy Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Defiance County Senior Services Aux | $8,764 | 1 | 14% |
| Ravens Care Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Friends of Independence Dam State Park | $7,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Fairview High School Athletic Boosters Assn | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Defiance Area Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.
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.
Premier Bank FoundationOH28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Premier Bank Foundation · Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust · United Way of Defiance County Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Keller Family Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Defiance Rotary Foundation · Bryan Area Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Defiance Area Foundation Inc
- How much does Defiance Area Foundation Inc give?
- Defiance Area Foundation Inc reported 34 itemized grants totaling $1,200,431, out of $1,481,165 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Defiance Area Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Defiance Area Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Defiance County Ohio ($560k), Northeastern Local School District ($430k), Lily Creek Farms ($217k).
- Does Defiance Area Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Defiance Area Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Premier Bank Foundation, Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust, United Way of Defiance County Inc.
- Where is Defiance Area Foundation Inc based?
- Defiance Area Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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