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.

First Federal Foundation

First Federal Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$83kYouth Development$75kCommunity Improvement$64kHuman Services$56kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$39kHealth$36kArts & Culture$23kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $57k
$10k–50k3 grants · $31k

$800

Median grant

States reached

$420k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
LICKING COUNTY COURTHOUSE LIGHTING	$1,500
OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION	$1,500
LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION	$1,500
LICKING COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY	$1,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$434k · 60 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$434k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+3%

Still filing today

55%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & 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

NC
NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND
8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +76%
ND
NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +755%
LC
Licking County Family YMCA
9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +46%

Funded once

JA
JOHN AND MARY ALFORD SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $6k
WA
WYATT ADKINS HEART ORGANIZATION
one grant, 2017 · $3k
WM
WATKINS MEMORIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCINC
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -37%

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.

Licking County Foundation

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.

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Licking County Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Licking Memorial Hospital

Licking memorial hospital exists to improve the health of the community.

Health

Greater Licking County Convention and Visitors Bureau

Promote licking county tourism

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Licking County Alcoholism Preventio

To provide integrated treatment and recovery services for individuals and families experiencing behavioral health issues including alcohol and drug-related problems.

Health

Greater Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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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…

—

Lorain County Historical Society Inc

The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.

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Ashland Assisted Living 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…

Human Services

Ohio Land Bank Association

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…

Environment

Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

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…

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Library Association of Sandusky Ohio

Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/54

Grantees still filing

35/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$196,335Education$87,950Community Improvement$58,000Human Services$54,000Philanthropy$39,750Health$29,500Arts & Culture$14,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Licking County Foundation IncOH90.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home