· Private foundation
Ford Albert M Charitable Tw
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY | $5,000 |
| SAMARITIAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CONVERSATION STATION | $2,450 |
| ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY | $2,000 |
| CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF | $2,000 |
| SAINT JOHN SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| ADAMS ANGELS | $300 |
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 (FY24–25, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- AAASHTABULA ARTS CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +75%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +16%
- ADATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY YMCAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +2%
- CDCIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
To achieve economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all of ashtabula county.
To provide ashtabula county children and parents a greater awareness of the opportunity for higher education and to assist families with discovering and obtaining the financial resources necessary to reach the goal of a higher education.
To operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.
To provide high-quality child care to infants and children.
Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…
Provide emergency shelter and meals, case management and assessment to homeless individuals and families from the ashtabula county and surrounding areas.
Services to the elderly
To further economic development in the ashland county area of wisconsin.
Serve disabled and disadvantaged adults seeking to develop job and interpersonal skills necessary to compete in the working world.
Economic development in and around ashland nebraska.
To provide short-term emergency financial assistance to the people in ashland county in the way of utilities, shelter, medication, pre-approved doctor and dental visits, and gasoline vouchers to doctor appointments out of town.
Our mission is to enhance the joyful experience of working, living, and exploring in downtown asheville. as the voice of downtown, we work to preserve the integrity of our community and support innovation for a dynamic, economically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Ashland County and the most unlike its peers is Adams Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ASHTABULA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS ANGELS ↗
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: Robert S Morrison Foundation · The Business of Good Foundation · The Ashtabula Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ford Albert M Charitable Tw 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.