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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.

$357k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$750kFood & Nutrition$195k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $350,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $357,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$350,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$240k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library$350,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OHIO GOVERNOR'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $400k → 9%Shared Harvest Food Bank: $15k → 12%Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank: $15k → 13%Second Harvest Food Bank - NCO: $15k → 13%West Ohio Food Bank: $15k → 13%The Food Bank Inc: $15k → 14%Second Harvest Food Bank - CCL: $15k → 15%Mid-Ohio Food Collective: $15k → 15%SE Ohio Food Bank & Kitchen: $15k → 15%La Soupe: $15k → 16%Greater Cleveland Food Bank: $15k → 17%Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank: $15k → 18%Second Harvest Food Bank - MV: $15k → 19%Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: $350k → 9%Freestore Food Bank: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
6
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding America West Michigan

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.

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9
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: $750,000 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination LibrarySECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FO…OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionOHIO TRI COUNTY F…West Ohio Food Bank: $15,000 · Food & NutritionWest Ohio Food Ba…AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON REGI…GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND…LA SOUPE INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INCSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FO…Feeding America: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBAN…TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTOLEDO NORTHWESTE…SHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC: $15,000 · OtherHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION: $15,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank: $15,000 · Other
Education$750,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Other$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $750,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Ohio Food Bank: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Ohio Association of F…Feeding AmericaThe Westfield Insuran…Encova Foundation of …The Kroger Co Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…Partnership for a Hea…The Kroger Co Zero Hu…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Ohio Association of Foodbanks IncOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to First Lady's Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to First Lady's Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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