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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $218,686, the rows itemized in this filing. The $354,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,543 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Newark Campus Development Fund$10,000
Salvation Army-Mount Vernon$10,000
Danville Police Department$10,000
Newark Band Parents Club$10,000
Licking County Foundation$10,000
Knox Esc Preschool$10,000
American Red Cross$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
Muskingum County Agricultural Society$7,500
Pataskala United Methodist Church$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Learning 4 Life Farm: $6k → 10%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville LLC: $10k → 14%Interchurch Social Services of Knox County Inc: $10k → 12%FOREVER DADS: $8k → 14%YMCA OF MT VERNON: $10k → 12%LICKING CO FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville Llc: $6k → 14%LOOK UP CENTER: $10k → 10%St Vincent De Paul Housing Facilities Inc: $10k → 10%Hope Now Furniture Bank: $6k → 12%American Red Cross: $10k → 10%Forever Dads: $5k → 14%Muskingum County Center For Seniors: $5k → 14%Homeless Hands Of Zanesville Llc: $5k → 14%LICKING CO FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%Hope Now Furniture Bank: $2k → 12%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%Buckeye Valley Ymca: $5k → 10%Esther'S Place Of Grace: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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%
-1%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • TB
    THE BRYN DU COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
37/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesFOREVERDADSYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…BLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLADENSBURG CO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX: $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERCHURCH SO…ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE …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 · EducationGranville Athletic Boosters: $5,000 · EducationNORTHRIDGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF LICKING COUNTY OHIO INC: $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 & CultureTHE BRYN DU COMMISSION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMVOML INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUND CITY LITTLE LEAGUE 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 & SportsSOUTHWEST LICKING BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBEECHWOOD TRAILS POOL AND PARK: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsJOHNSTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 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 & NutritionALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthSAVE A WARRIOR INC: $10,000 · HealthLICKING COUNTY ALCOHOLISM PREVENTIO: $8,000 · HealthLAZARUS LIFE MINISTRIES: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRYN DU COMMISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUND CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSAVE A WARRIOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST MUSKINGUM ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetTHE LUDOWICI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,252 over 1y, 15% of budgetHopeNow: $8,170 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLICKING COUNTY ALCOHOLISM PREVENTIO: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAZARUS LIFE MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTRANSITIONS INC: $7,915 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH ZANESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $7,575 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 92: $7,500 over 1y, 10% 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 budgetMOHICAN AREA GROWTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLicking Valley Gridiron Association: $7,000 over 1y, 8.5% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Licking County Founda…Park National Corpora…The Lindorf Family Fo…First Federal Foundat…Licking Memorial Heal…The John and Mary Alf…United Way of Licking…Knox County FoundationColumbus FoundationNewark Lodge No 499 L…The Englefield Founda…J William & Mary Stra…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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