· Public charity
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.
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 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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY18–24, $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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- NCNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +23%
- TWTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +69%
- OCOHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES MUSKINGUM CO4× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- MPMy Place To Beone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
- SASAVE A WARRIOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +65%
- WMWEST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To provide fire protection and emergency rescue service for ballville township and surrounding areas.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
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.
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.
The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
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.
Volunteer fire protection services
The primary mission of the organization is to provide fire and rescue services to ohio township and sewickley hills by all volunteer members.
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…
Providing sports to youth in the community.
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…
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.
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 field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES MUSKINGUM CO ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTERAL EXTENSION CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOOK UP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC ↗
- Who funds SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOREVERDADS ↗
- Who funds NEWARK MIDLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER ↗
- Who funds My Place To Be ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVE A WARRIOR INC ↗
- Who funds FOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Newark Band Parents Club ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION 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: 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.
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.
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