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First Lady's Charitable Foundation
To raise awareness and financial support for the First Lady (or first spouse) of Ohio's philantrhopic endeavors.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $350,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $357,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,200 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 |
|---|---|
| Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | $350,000 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 16% of your 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.
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 Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The mission of the second harvest food bank of northwest pennsylvania is to provide food to those in need within eleven counties of northwest pennsylvania while creating awareness and educating the community on the realities of hunger.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula. contributions and net assets consist primarily of donated food for distribution.
Hoosier hills food bank collects, stores, and distributes nutritious food products to non-profit organizations, which provide free feeding programs that serve both ill and needy families and individuals in monroe, martin, owen, orange,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds SHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Ohio Association of Foodbanks Inc · Feeding America · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · The Kroger Co Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Partnership for a Healthier America Inc · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lady's Charitable 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.
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