· Private foundation
Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OLDER ADULT ALTERNATIVES | $10,418 |
| CROSSROADS MINISTRY CENTER | $10,000 |
| OHIO GLASS MUSEUM | $9,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| MAYWOOD MISSION | $8,000 |
| FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ATHENS COUNTY | $8,000 |
| OLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELD | $4,000 |
| FOUNDATION DINNERS | $3,672 |
| FRIENDS OF LANCASTER PARKS & RECREATION | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| FOREST ROSE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR DISABILITIES | $3,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- OGOHIO GLASS MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +109%
- MMMAYWOOD MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +238%
- TLTHE LIGHTHOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ATHENS COUNTYone grant, 2025 · $8k
- OSOLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELDone grant, 2025 · $4k
- FCFAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INCone grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue +16%
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.
Recreation and social activiities for the elderly
Construction and rehabilitation of housing to benefit the living conditions of low income persons.
To provide a warm and welcoming residence for people at the end of life which provides professional and compassionate care in a place to spend meaningful time with loved ones.
Support and various other services. the fairfield county council appoints the members of the council's board of directors, which is the council's governing authority. accordingly, the council is considered to be a component unit of the…
Maintaining a firehouse from which volunteer firemen respond to numerous fire and emergency calls. the firehouse is also utilized for organization meetings, training sessions for its members, and for fire prevention education for the…
Aging services to senior citizens, senior center operations, senior trips, senior health promotions, nutritional programs, emergency assistance, and numerous senior activities.
To provide elderly and handicapped persons with housing facilities and services especially designed to meet their physical, social and psychological needs, and to promote their health, security, and happiness and usefuless in longer living
The family abuse shelter of miami county inc., assists victims of domestic violence and homelessness with emergency shelter and supportive services that promote self reliance, dignity and safety.
To provided affordable rental housing to senior citizens.
Provide fire and emergency medical services.
Provide free groceries and personal items to needy families as determined by the local welfare office, local churches, shelters, hospitals, and civic organizations.
Organized as a retirement center, for senior citizens and disabled individuals, offering spiritual, mental and physical nurture according to christ's servant attitude in a manner exceeding regulations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation Dinners and the most unlike its peers is Maywood Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 OHIO GLASS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAYWOOD MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION DINNERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LANCASTER PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
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: Fairfield County Foundation · United Way of Fairfield County · Columbus 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 Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr 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.