· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ATHENS COUNTY | $8,000 |
| MAYWOOD MISSION | $8,000 |
| FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| OLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELD | $4,000 |
| FOUNDATION DINNERS | $3,672 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LANCASTER PARKS & RECREATION | $3,000 |
| FOREST ROSE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR DISABILITIES | $3,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +51% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Fairfield County Foundation · United Way of Fairfield County · Columbus Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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