· Public charity
Defiance Area Foundation Inc
Fund projects to better the defiance county area
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $1,200,431 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,481,165 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $280,734 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $407k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
- $250k+1 grant · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEFIANCE AREA YMCA | $326,957 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $132,250 |
| DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITOR'S | $111,456 |
| LILY CREEK FARMS | $101,300 |
| NORTHEASTERN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $51,000 |
| JOHNSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FRIENDS | $43,500 |
| BLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL 449 | $39,040 |
| DEFIANCE COMMUNITY CULTURAL COUNCIL | $39,000 |
| DEFIANCE CITY SCHOOLS | $38,088 |
| DEFIANCE DREAM CENTER | $26,388 |
| DIOCESE OF TOLEDO | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY | $24,232 |
| NORTHEASTERN LOCAL SCHOOL FUND DEFI | $22,459 |
| CITY OF DEFIANCE | $20,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $16,317 |
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, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- LCLILY CREEK FARMS6× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +350%
- DDDEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC7× · 2019–2025 · $209k · revenue +79%
- DCDEFIANCE COLLEGE6× · 2019–2025 · $133k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- CMCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $63k · revenue +192%
- ALAYERSVILLE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
To promote the advancement and excellence of the defiance college's athletic programs.
The mission of the coalition is defiance county promoting substance use awareness. the purpose of the defiance county drug free coalition is to document and inform the defiance community about the extent of the alcohol and drug abuse in…
Provide assistance for college expenses for students who have shown outstanding community service, good citizenship, and good grades
Conduct annual county fair
Conducts delaware county fair which includes providing and maintaining facilities to support junior & senior fair competitions, horse races, amusement rides and all other facilities needed for this nature of program
The purpose of the organization is to campaign for, receive, hold and apply funds, gifts, bequests, and endowments or the proceeds thereof for the purpose of charitable, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the…
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.
Deaconess Health Associations Fund Inc. is organized to raise and distribute funds to financially support the tax-exempt affiliates of Deaconess Associations, Inc., in terms of community health care needs, as well as provide grant monies…
The purpose of homegrown is to assist local companies with workforce and business development opportunities in defiance county.
The purpose of the association shall be to encourage the members of the denville fire dept in the preservation and protection of life and property from and during such fires and emergencies as may occur in the township of denville and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Defiance County Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Pharaohz Rc. 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 30 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 Defiance County Ohio ↗
- Who funds LILY CREEK FARMS ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds Ignite Academy ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DEFIANCE COMMUNITY CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE AREA YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AYERSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Defiance Softball Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY AND INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AYERSVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
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: 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
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 Defiance Area Foundation Inc 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.