· Private foundation
Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK | $30,000 |
| PRIME TIME OFFICE ON AGING | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $17,200 |
| Ohio Valley Health Center | $15,756 |
| The Steubenville Cultural Trust | $15,000 |
| The Harmonium Project | $12,500 |
| VALLEY HOSPICE | $12,378 |
| VAGABOND MISSION | $8,000 |
| HILLTOP CHILDRENS HOUSE | $7,500 |
| WEST LIBERTY UNIV FBO MASON STOLL | $6,627 |
| CAPITAL UNIV FBO ETHAN SHADDINGER | $6,627 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 27 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- OVOhio Valley Youth Network5× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +247%
- OVOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +218%
- UMURBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC4× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TSTRI STATE HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +9%
- WIWOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue -96%
- SCSteubenville Catholic Central Highone grant, 2018 · $13k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
St. Augustine Health Ministries continues the healing ministry of Christ by promoting the quality of life and independence of each person entrusted to our care through a continuum of health care and related services to the chronically ill…
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Judson care center's mission, as a charitable, christian organization, is to use its resources to meet the housing, health care, social, physical and spiritual needs of its constituents without regards to race, color, creed, national…
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Jefferson County and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 55 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 Ohio Valley Youth Network ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT STEUBEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEUBENVILLE CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds TRI STATE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Brightway Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOUNDS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHARITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds AIM WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate ↗
- Who funds BLUE STREAM FARMS CORPORATION ↗
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: John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Steel Valley Charities · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · United Way of Jefferson County · Silver Trumpets Inc · Starvaggi Charities Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family 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 Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust 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.