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Economic and Community Development Institute
The mission of ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ecdi) is to invest in people to create measurable and enduring social and economic change.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF BELMONT COUNTY | $180,122 |
| SHAWNEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $56,814 |
| OHIO CDC | $20,555 |
| OUR JOBS OUR CHILDREN'S OUR FUTURE INC | $9,476 |
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 (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- DODEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION3× · 2023–2025 · $239k · revenue +60% · 43% of their budget
- OCOHIO CDC ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $194k · revenue +6%
- HOHOUSE OF GRACE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES LLC2× · 2021–2022 · $35k
Funded once
- COCLEVELAND OAK INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PTPROFER TURF CARE LLC DBA THE GROUNDS GUYS OF CANTON OHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JRJ R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +34%
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.
Economic & community development - restore and maintain healthy economic and social conditions in the city of canton and stark county and to support infrastructure expansion vital to economic growth.
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.
To provide outstanding member service and business advocacy to make the clermont county area the best place to locate, operate, and grow business.
Industrial and tourism development in cleveland - bolivar county, ms.
To develop, enhance, and represent business, stimulate community leadership and promote economic growth.
The purpose of the greater columbus chamber of commerce is to promote and develop civic, educational, commercial and industrial interests in columbus, georgia and certain surrounding areas.
To stimulate business and networking relations between europe and the cincinnati tri-state region through education, exchanges, trade missions, increasing awareness, enhancing the region and europe's image, providing information &…
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Organization of Scioto County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amvets Post #555. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 112 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 DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO CDC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shawnee State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds Lenzy Family Institute ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds STARKFRESH ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Economic and Community Development Institute 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.