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Fairfield County Foundation

Building a legacy through philanthropy and stewardship to strengthen our community.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.4MReligion$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$809kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 69 grants below total $3,015,855, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,225,235 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,209,380 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 $10k17 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $957k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $559k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$15,535
Median grant
7
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRFIELD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIE$600,000
GAMETIME$495,535
LANCASTER FESTIVAL$279,000
FAIRHOPE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE$225,000
THE TREE CHURCH$119,000
NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$101,000
FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION$63,800
DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO$50,000
ALUMNI ASSOC AMANDA CLEARCREEK HS$41,475
FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$40,110
BALTIMORE AREA MUSEUM CORP$37,400
MAYWOOD MISSION$35,960
CRISIS RELIEF AND RECOVERY$35,000
HARCUM HOUSE$33,054
YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNT$33,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF HONDURAS: $15k → 11%91 PLACE INC: $25k → 16%ALVIS INC: $35k → 15%HILLYARD: $19k → 15%MILLERSPORT COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 9%ALL ACCESSIBLE SPORTS COMPLEX & PK: $75k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $75k → 9%FAMILY Y OF LANCASTER AND FAIRFIELD: $60k → 9%MAYWOOD MISSION: $52k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $50k → 9%YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNT: $50k → 9%SPIRES PAVING CO: $45k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SC OHIO: $44k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $43k → 9%MAYWOOD MISSION: $36k → 9%HARCUM HOUSE: $33k → 9%YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNT: $33k → 9%MAYWOOD MISSIONS: $33k → 9%OLIVEDALE SENIOR CENTER: $31k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SC OHIO: $30k → 9%BOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRIVE: $30k → 9%OLIVEDALE SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 9%FAMILY Y OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD: $26k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $25k → 9%ROBERT K FOX FAMILY Y: $25k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $25k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SC OHIO: $24k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWSIES: $22k → 9%HARCUM HOUSE: $20k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE INC: $16k → 9%OLIVEDALE SENIOR CENTER: $16k → 9%FAMILY Y OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD: $15k → 9%MAYWOOD MISSIONS: $15k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $15k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $15k → 9%FAMILY Y OF LANCASTER AND FAIRFIELD: $13k → 9%BOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRIVE: $13k → 9%FAMILY Y OF LANCASTER AND FAIRFIELD: $11k → 9%MAYWOOD MISSION: $11k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $10k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $10k → 9%HARCUM HOUSE: $10k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $10k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $10k → 9%LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD CO CHARITY NEWS: $10k → 9%ALL ACCESSIBLE SPORTS COMPLEX & PK: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
IA
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
TN
NC
AL
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Fairfield County Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 88%.

Fairfield County Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 73 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
84

Total granted

$9.5M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LF
    LANCASTER FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +57% · 87% of their budget
  • DA
    DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $619k · revenue +60% · 26% of their budget
  • MO
    Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of
    8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $443k
  • LC
    LANCASTER CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $129k
  • DR
    DWA RECREATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $115k
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
Fairfield County Hospice House Inc D/B/a Fairfield County House

To provide a warm and welcoming residence for people at the end of life which provides professional and compassionate care in a place to spend meaningful time with loved ones.

Human Services
2
Fairfield County Council On Aging

Support and various other services. the fairfield county council appoints the members of the council's board of directors, which is the council's governing authority. accordingly, the council is considered to be a component unit of the…

Human Services
3
The Food Pantry Network of Licking County

Distribution of food to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
Faith Mission 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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
6
Fairfield Food Pantry

To provide a balanced and nutritious emergency food supply to those with special needs in a loving, caring, and supportive manner.

Human Services
7
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…

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8
Ohio Hills Health Services

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…

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9
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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10
Family Recovery Center

To provide treatment and prevention of substance abuse and related mental health problems for the residents of columbiana county and surrounding counties.

Health
11
Friendship Village of Columbus Ohio Inc

To promote independence, wellness and community for older adults in an active and friendly continuing-care environment.

Human Services
12
Franklinton Development Association

The franklinton development association is a community development coporation formed to lead the revitalization of the franklinton neighborhhood of columubs ohio through the creation of affordable housing and commercial development for…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio; the most unlike its peers is K9SENSUS Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 184 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
52/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GAMETIME: $495,535 · OtherGAMETIMEST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $443,125 · OtherST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHCORNERSTONE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH: $420,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHBALTIMORE AREA COMMUNITY MUSEUM CORPORATION: $315,800 · OtherFAIRFIELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: $250,000 · Other+138 more: $5,251,451 · Other+138 moreLANCASTER FESTIVAL INC: $1,583,574 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER FESTIVAL INCDECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO: $618,728 · Arts & CultureDECORATIVE ARTS CENTER…FAIRFIELD COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $206,555 · Arts & CultureFAIRFIELD COUNTY HERIT…AHA A HANDS ON ADVENTURE A CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $166,903 · Arts & CultureAHA A HANDS ON ADVENTU…DESTINATION DOWNTOWN LANCASTER INC: $115,266 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $97,576 · Arts & CultureMeals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of: $272,109 · Human ServicesMeals on Wh…THE FAMILY YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $232,768 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY …MAYWOOD MISSION: $176,768 · Human ServicesMAYWOOD MIS…ALL ACCESSIBLE SPORTS COMPLEX AND PARK INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesALL ACCESSI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $111,573 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…Lancaster Fairfield County Newsies Inc: $86,500 · Human ServicesLancaster F…HARCUM HOUSE: $78,044 · Human ServicesHARCUM HOUS…OLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $76,675 · Human ServicesOLIVEDALE S…+8 more: $190,318 · Human Services+8 moreFAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION: $674,971 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD…FAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $220,181 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD…UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $218,910 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…The New Horizons Foundation Inc: $101,000 · PhilanthropyThe New H…FAIRFIELD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $600,000 · Food & NutritionLANCASTER FRESH MARKET INC: $39,090 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $32,000 · Food & NutritionFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $172,976 · HealthNEW HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $106,677 · HealthTHE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $79,271 · HealthFAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTER: $27,200 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $25,000 · HealthRECOVERY CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY: $15,500 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthFAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $229,257 · Animals+1 more: $7,500 · Animals
Other$7,175,911Arts & Culture$2,788,602Human Services$1,354,755Philanthropy$1,215,062Food & Nutrition$671,090Health$436,624Animals$236,757

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 budgetLANCASTER FESTIVAL INC: $1,583,574 over 8y, 87% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION: $674,971 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO: $618,728 over 8y, 26% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $600,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMeals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of: $272,109 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $232,768 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetFAIRHOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $230,100 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $229,257 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetFAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $220,181 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $218,910 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $206,555 over 5y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC: $201,543 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMAYWOOD MISSION: $176,768 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN OHIO: $176,144 over 4y, 22% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $172,976 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAHA A HANDS ON ADVENTURE A CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $166,903 over 5y, 19% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $165,300 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LANCASTER PARKS AND RECREATION: $140,240 over 6y, 26% of budgetFAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $135,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetALL ACCESSIBLE SPORTS COMPLEX AND PARK INC: $130,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetGENEVA HILLS GROUP INC: $118,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetDESTINATION DOWNTOWN LANCASTER INC: $115,266 over 5y, 18% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $111,573 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $106,677 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $101,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROARTEOHIO VOCAL ENSEMBLE: $94,519 over 6y, 29% of budgetLancaster Fairfield County Newsies Inc: $86,500 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetFAITH MEMORIAL CHURCH INC: $83,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetOHIO GLASS MUSEUM: $81,050 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $79,271 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHARCUM HOUSE: $78,044 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetOLIVEDALE SENIOR CITIZENS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $76,675 over 3y, 17% of budgetNationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return: $73,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $65,550 over 6y, 10% of budgetGRACE HAVEN MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL: $58,463 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMANDA CLEARCREEK HIGH SCHOOL: $55,464 over 2y, 17% of budgetREFUGE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOTTOMS UP DIAPER DRIVE: $42,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetLANCASTER FRESH MARKET INC: $39,090 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetALVIS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS RELIEF & RECOVERY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCONCRETE ORKIDZ FOUNDATION: $33,046 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetThe Foundation Shelters: $33,046 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE INC: $31,043 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTER: $27,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget91 PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds LANCASTER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRHOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYWOOD MISSION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AHA A HANDS ON ADVENTURE A CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LANCASTER PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL ACCESSIBLE SPORTS COMPLEX AND PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA HILLS GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds DESTINATION DOWNTOWN LANCASTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROARTEOHIO VOCAL ENSEMBLE ↗
  • Who funds Lancaster Fairfield County Newsies Inc ↗

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.

South Central Power C…United Way of Fairfie…Park National Corpora…Don & Jo Ann Bainter …Columbus FoundationFox Foundation IncPeoples Bank Foundati…Ingram-White Castle F…L Brands FoundationHarry C Moores Founda…Meals on Wheels Older…Kelley Family Foundat…
South Central Power Company FoundationOH35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Central Power Company Foundation · United Way of Fairfield County · Park National Corporation Foundation · Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr · Columbus Foundation · Fox Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of · Kelley Family Foundation

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 Fairfield County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairfield County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 184 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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