· 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.
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 $10k45 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK AND CENTRAL OHIO | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF LICKING COUNTY | $10,000 |
| LICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOSTERING FURTHER | $7,500 |
| NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND | $6,500 |
| BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA | $3,500 |
| FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY | $3,460 |
| OHIO BANKERS FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY | $3,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,750 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES | $1,700 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF GRANVILLE | $1,500 |
| OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| LICKING COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| LICKING COUNTY COURTHOUSE LIGHTING | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 12 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- NCNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +76%
- NDNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +755%
- LCLicking County Family YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- JAJOHN AND MARY ALFORD SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $6k
- WAWYATT ADKINS HEART ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- WMWATKINS MEMORIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCINCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -37%
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 licking county foundation is to improve the quality of life for all citizens of licking county and to distribute earnings from permanent charitable assets to benefit the entire community.
The mission of licking county foundation is to improve the quality of life for all citizens of licking county and to distribute earnings from permanent charitable assets to benefit the entire community.
Licking memorial hospital exists to improve the health of the community.
Promote licking county tourism
To provide integrated treatment and recovery services for individuals and families experiencing behavioral health issues including alcohol and drug-related problems.
To promote the general economic welfare and prosperity of the Lawrence County, Ohio area to the end objective that its citizens and businesses shall grow and prosper.
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…
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
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…
Supporting the work of and advocating on behalf of all county land reutilization corporations, commonly known as land banks, across ohio. with 61 of ohios 88 counties having land banks, a clear need has emerged for a statewide association…
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gilbert Reese Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 110 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 NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds LICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROW LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FURTHER ↗
- Who funds Granville Athletic Boosters ↗
- Who funds THE GILBERT REESE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEATH ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds A CALL TO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OHIO BANKERS FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY ↗
- Who funds GRANVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE GROW INC ↗
- Who funds The Twentieth Century Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATKINS MEMORIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCINC ↗
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: 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
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 First Federal Foundation 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.