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Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc

Utilize member contributions for assistance in programs and service that improve the quality of life for our cooperative members and the communities we serve.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$231kHuman Services$214kEducation$182kPublic Safety & Disaster$159kHealth$110kHousing & Shelter$101kArts & Culture$96kYouth Development$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $218,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $354,229 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,543 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 $10k26 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$6,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$292k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Knox Esc Preschool$10,000
Licking County Foundation$10,000
Newark Campus Development Fund$10,000
Danville Police Department$10,000
Newark Band Parents Club$10,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Salvation Army-Mount Vernon$10,000
Newton Township$9,839
Hartford Township Fire Department$8,675
Newton Township Fire Dept$8,417
Central Christian Church Food Pantry$7,921
South Zanesville Fire Department$7,575
Village Of Roseville$7,569
Pataskala United Methodist Church$7,500
Muskingum County Agricultural Society$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville LLC: $10k → 14%Learning 4 Life Farm: $6k → 10%YMCA OF MT VERNON: $10k → 12%Interchurch Social Services of Knox County Inc: $10k → 12%FOREVER DADS: $8k → 14%LICKING CO FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%American Red Cross: $10k → 10%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville Llc: $6k → 14%Hope Now Furniture Bank: $6k → 12%LOOK UP CENTER: $10k → 10%Forever Dads: $5k → 14%LICKING CO FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%Muskingum County Center For Seniors: $5k → 14%St Vincent De Paul Housing Facilities Inc: $10k → 10%Hope Now Furniture Bank: $2k → 12%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville Llc: $5k → 14%Forever Dads: $5k → 14%Bladensburg Comm Heritage Foundation: $10k → 12%Look Up Ministries: $8k → 10%The Woodlands Serving Central Ohio: $7k → 10%LOOK UP CENTER: $6k → 10%Look Up Ministries: $5k → 10%HOUSE OF NEW HOPE: $7k → 10%Esther'S Place Of Grace: $5k → 10%Buckeye Valley Ymca: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$619k · 27 repeat orgs$766k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
88

Total granted

$619k
$644k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
0%

Still filing today

63%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • NC
    NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • TW
    THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +69%
  • OC
    OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES MUSKINGUM CO
    4× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MP
    My Place To Be
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
  • SA
    SAVE A WARRIOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +65%
  • WM
    WEST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRIC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ballville Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide fire protection and emergency rescue service for ballville township and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Graysville & Community Vol Fire Dept

Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community

3
Muskingum Recreation Center

Dedicated to providing residents and visitors a safe, clean, and well maintained facility that promotes health, education, and recreation through a network of quality programs, activities, and amenities.

Recreation & Sports
4
The Ohio Veterans Home Volunteer Advisory Committee Inc

The sole mission of the ohio veteran's home volunteer advisory committee is to provide services, programs, and equipment not otherwise provided for the brave men and women veterans of the ohio veterans home.

Human Services
5
New Choices Inc

The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Muskingum Valley Health Center

To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.

Health
7
Life & Purpose Community Resource Center

A welcoming location in the Mid Ohio Valley aimed to connect ones with resources promoting stability, independence, and help powering through information while reducing stigma surrounding accessing support.

Human Services
8
Ohio Township Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Volunteer fire protection services

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Ohio Township Volunteer Fire Company of Allegheny County

The primary mission of the organization is to provide fire and rescue services to ohio township and sewickley hills by all volunteer members.

10
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

11
Launch Baseball Inc

Providing sports to youth in the community.

Recreation & Sports
12
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Abbot Home. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyKnox County Community Devel…Veterans Fraternal Organiza…School Activity BoostersRural Advocacy AssociationsYouth Sports LeaguesLocal Community Infrastruct…Community Utility Cooperati…Senior Care and Youth Servi…Behavioral Health & Residen…Faith-Based Community Suppo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%7%<5yr9%18%5–10yr27%21%10–20yr13%18%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr9%14%5–10yr27%17%10–20yr13%23%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr19%24%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
10%
172/1,640

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.

04the grantee network

75 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 134 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
38/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $40,000 · OtherNEWTON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT — $32,817 · OtherCITY OF NEWARK — $31,500 · OtherVillage Of Johnstown — $30,000 · Other+86 more — $741,164 · Other+86 moreLOOK UP MINISTRIES — $28,500 · Human ServicesLOOK UP MINIST…Licking County Family YMCA — $25,000 · Human ServicesLicking County…HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC — $21,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS HANDS…FOREVERDADS — $17,500 · Human ServicesFOREVERDADSST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE …INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX — $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERCHURCH SO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…BLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLADENSBURG CO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…HopeNow — $8,170 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF NEW HOPE INC — $6,900 · Human ServicesTHE WOODLANDS SERVING CENTRAL OHIO INC — $6,750 · Human ServicesLEARNING 4 LIFE FARM — $6,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND — $50,000 · EducationMy Place To Be — $13,029 · EducationNewark Band Parents Club — $10,000 · EducationTHE SHANE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $5,600 · EducationGranville Arts Boosters Corporation — $5,125 · EducationDanville Athletic Boosters — $5,000 · EducationNORTHRIDGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF LICKING COUNTY OHIO INC — $5,000 · EducationGranville Athletic Boosters — $5,000 · EducationTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC — $17,745 · Arts & CultureNEWARK MIDLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $17,000 · Arts & CultureMOUND CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BRYN DU COMMISSION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMVOML INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWEST MUSKINGUM ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsJOHNSTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBEECHWOOD TRAILS POOL AND PARK — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHWEST LICKING BASEBALL LEAGUE INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES MUSKINGUM CO — $32,800 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY — $15,000 · Food & NutritionOhio County & Independent Richland County — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMUSKINGUM COUNTY HUNGER NETWORK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $10,000 · HealthALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY — $10,000 · HealthLAZARUS LIFE MINISTRIES — $8,000 · HealthLICKING COUNTY ALCOHOLISM PREVENTIO — $8,000 · HealthPATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $7,500 · HealthBEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $7,000 · Health
Other$875,481Human Services$179,820Education$98,754Arts & Culture$74,745Recreation & Sports$62,500Food & Nutrition$57,800Health$50,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES MUSKINGUM CO — $32,800 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAGRICULTERAL EXTENSION CAMPS INC — $29,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLOOK UP MINISTRIES — $28,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLicking County Family YMCA — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC — $21,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL OHIO — $18,028 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC — $17,745 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LICKING COUNTY — $17,672 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOREVERDADS — $17,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEWARK MIDLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER — $14,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMy Place To Be — $13,029 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $11,720 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMOUND CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRYN DU COMMISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWEST MUSKINGUM ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LUDOWICI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,252 over 1y, 15% of budgetHopeNow — $8,170 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLAZARUS LIFE MINISTRIES — $8,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLICKING COUNTY ALCOHOLISM PREVENTIO — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSITIONS INC — $7,915 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH ZANESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $7,575 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 92 — $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOHICAN AREA GROWTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLicking Valley Gridiron Association — $7,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF NEW HOPE INC — $6,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS SERVING CENTRAL OHIO INC — $6,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLICKING COUNTY AGING PROGRAM — $6,527 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABBOT HOME — $6,400 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Licking County Foundation IncOH74.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Licking County Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Lindorf Family Foundation · First Federal Foundation · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · United Way of Licking County Inc · Knox County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Newark Lodge No 499 Loyal Order of Moose · The Englefield Foundation · J William & Mary Straker Charitable 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 Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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