· Public charity
Firelands Regional Medical Center
Our mission is to be the healthcare provider of choice for physicians, their patients, our volunteers and employees as we strive together to improve the health and well being of those 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 1 grants below total $22,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,363 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRELANDS PHYSICIANS REGIONAL HEALTH CARE | $22,837 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +101% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- SSSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +101%
- GSGREATER SANDUSKY PARTNERSHIP2× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue ×11 · 71% of their budget
- ECERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CO INC4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- TMTHE MARGARETTA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -9%
- EAEDISON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +86% · 43% of their budget
- ECERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +10%
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.
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.
To lead erie's economic evolution through access, advocacy and awareness.
Provide, acquire and or reward educational opportunities that directly impact students, staff and alumni of erie high school.
We strengthen stark county by driving business growth and leading its economic transformation.
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
To assist in the retention and creation of jobs, improve local services, broaden the tax base and encourage capital investment in paulding county, ohio.
Edgewood board of economic development prootes business growth and job development and retention and assists the community with development proects and restoration
Were working together to make the Erie region a community of opportunity where everyone can learn, work and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Margaretta High School Athletic Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER SANDUSKY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE MARGARETTA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDISON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CO INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY ARTISANS COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Erie County Community 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 Firelands Regional Medical Center 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.