· Private foundation
Ford S N & Ada Fund Pfdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of FORD S N & ADA FUND PFDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $282k
- $250k+1 grant · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $346,905 |
| TAKING ROOT FARMS | $100,000 |
| MADISON LOCAL BOARD OF EDUCATION | $72,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC | $50,000 |
| M1 CHURCH AND KIDS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION3× · 2019–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $328k · revenue +34%
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- OCOHIOHEALTH CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TSTHIRD STREET FAMILY HEALTH SVCSone grant, 2020 · $95k
- TSTHIRD STREET CLINICone grant, 2022 · $83k · revenue -48% · 95% of their budget
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.
Our mission is to promote an environment where members of our community can receive high quality care and services so they can maintain and be restored to good health.
The organization provides 24 hour oversight and nursing care and aims to maintain each resident at their maximum level of function, provide a home-like atmosphere of caring and respect, and accommodate individual differences to the extent…
To provide comprehensive primary health care and preventative health services to underserved communities. to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
Dedicated to providing the highest quality medical services within our power to provide to the people of camden, pulaski, laclede, and miller counties
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.
The mission of family health center of marshfield, inc. is to provide access to high quality health care services for the underserved and to enhance the health of our communities.
To provide community-based, full-service healthcare of the highest quality with respect and dignity for all people including the underserved and uninsured within a setting that shares the love and healing of jesus christ.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The mission of the columbiana county mental health clinic is to improve the lives of individuals and families by meeting the behavioral health needs of our community. this is accomplished through: 1) excellent customer service, 2)…
Providing primary health care to low-income residents.
Our mission is to promote an environment where members of our community can receive high quality care and services so they can maintain and be restored to good health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Individual and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rubies Womens Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE COUNSELING & PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds RUBIES WOMENS GROUP INC ↗
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: Richland County Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · Gorman Family Foundation · Shelby Ohio Community Foundation of Richland County · United Way of Richland County
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 S N & Ada Fund Pfdn 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.