· Public charity
Early Childhood Resource Center
The ECRC promotes the healthy development of young children by strengthening families, improving the quality of early learning experiences, increasing school and community readiness, and informing public policy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $355,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $712,992 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $357,425 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Connection of Northeast Ohio | $81,736 |
| YMCA of Central Ohio | $64,562 |
| Home for Families | $34,666 |
| Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority | $34,348 |
| Best Point Education and Behavioral Health | $25,125 |
| Early Childhood Education Alliance Inc | $24,807 |
| Action for Children | $23,853 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital | $22,899 |
| Wellspring | $13,358 |
| Fairless Local Schools | $13,040 |
| New Miami School District | $12,085 |
| AHEAD Inc | $5,088 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FCFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO4× · 2021–2024 · $456k · revenue +14%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO4× · 2021–2024 · $242k · revenue +49%
- THTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $189k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FRFUTURE READY FIVEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +159%
- GFGREENLEAF FAMILY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +42%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +19%
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.
Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment,…
Child focus strengthens the quality of life for 20,000 individuals in central and southern Ohio by developing thriving kids, strong families and successful adults
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Creating a link between parents, providers, and the community to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality child care.
Occrra enhances the statewide system of child and youth learning and development experiences to achieve high quality outcomes for ohio children and families. we accomplish our mission by, supporting ohio's network of child care resource &…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To improve the well-being, care and education for the whole child.
The organization operates a childhood center in oberlin, ohio for up tp 100 children ages six weeks to five years old. the center provides a unique, child centered campus for anyone in need regardless of financial ability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections of Northeast Ohio and the most unlike its peers is The Homeless Families Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Early Childhood Education Alliance ↗
- Who funds Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE READY FIVE ↗
- Who funds Ahead Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENLEAF FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
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: American Electric Power Foundation · Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio · Columbus Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Early Childhood Resource Center 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.