Ohio · Private foundation
First Federal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $420k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations First Federal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $88k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $55k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $63k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $59k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $48k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $40k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $38k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Campus Development Fund | $49,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Newark Development Partners | $37,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Licking County Family YMCA | $33,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Licking Memorial Health Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grow Licking County | $21,000 | 7 | 1% |
| United Way of Licking County Inc | $19,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Fostering Further | $15,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Granville Athletic Boosters | $15,200 | 5 | 1% |
| The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Heath Athletic Boosters | $10,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Federal Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Licking County Foundation Inc · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · The Lindorf Family Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · Cecil Mauger Charitable Trust · United Way of Licking County Inc · The O'Neill Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Newark Lodge No 499 Loyal Order of Moose
How this is measured
About First Federal Foundation
- How much does First Federal Foundation give?
- First Federal Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $87,870 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does First Federal Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Youth Development (16%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are First Federal Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newark Campus Development Fund ($50k), Newark Development Partners ($37k), Licking County Family YMCA ($34k).
- Does First Federal Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Federal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Federal Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Licking County Foundation Inc, Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc, Park National Corporation Foundation.
- Where is First Federal Foundation based?
- First Federal Foundation is based in OH.
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