· Private foundation
E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $20,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $10,000 |
| POLAND FOREST FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GOODNESS GROWS | $6,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
| WYSU | $5,000 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $5,000 |
| COLEMAN HEALTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FAIRHAVEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- MVMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +159%
- TYTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR4× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +73%
- CPCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OSOBLATE SISTERS SACRED HEART OF JESUSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SFSHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +54%
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.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Youngstown area goodwill industries actively strives to achieve full participation in society of people with disabilities and special needs by expanding opportunities, capabilities, and independence.
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
The orrville united way improves lives by unitiing people and resources to advance the common good in orrville, dalton and marshallville in eastern wayne county ohio. our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent future problems…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To operate for charitable purposes that exclusively benefit or carry out the charitable, educational and/or economic development purposes of the youngstown/warren regional chamber.
Provides funds for medical equipment and other significant capital needs of mercy memorial hospital in urbana, ohio.
To solidify and accelerate downtown youngstown's resurgence as a center of employment, higher education, government services & culture, and to serve as a catalyst for overall economic development in the mahoning valley.
A community development organization dedicated to revitalization, beautification, education and historic preservation of the greater downtown youngstown area, its corridors and gateways.
The memorial health foundation encourages philanthropic support of marietta memorial hospital and related services. activities include raising funds, fund stewardship and making grants to improve health care in the mid-ohio valley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbiana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Melina Michelle Edenfield Foundatio. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BRICK PLACE ↗
- Who funds GOODNESS GROWS ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Hill Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association 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: Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Premier Bank Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn · John D Finnegan Fdn · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · John F & Loretta Hynes Fdn
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 E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust 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.