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Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Philanthropy$166kArts & Culture$75kEducation$61kHealth$60kCivil Rights$54kReligion$51kInternational$45kMembership Benefit$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FOUNDATION$47,000
AKIVA ACADEMY$8,333
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$8,000
MAHONING LODGE #339$8,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER$7,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$7,000
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIV FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$5,000
YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMT CORP$5,000
WARREN CITY SCHOOLS$4,664
UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN & THE MAHONING$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$4,000
NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES$3,000
MIDNIGHT MISSION$3,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN OHIO$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 12%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $5k → 16%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $3k → 16%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $3k → 16%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%OUR COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $1k → 19%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $1k → 16%GOLDEN STRING INC: $5k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $1k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$406k · 36 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
35

Total granted

$406k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

53%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • YN
    YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +154%
  • CF
    COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • YA
    YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -53%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • GS
    GOLDEN STRING INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Inc

The jewish federation of greater dayton is the central organization established to further the welfare of the jewish community. the federation coordinates social, welfare and cultural programs; fosters cooperation among jewish…

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
4
Jewish Federation of Columbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
5
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
6
Jewish Community Council of Erie

The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
8
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
10
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
11
Yeshiva Knesseth Yisroel

To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…

Philanthropy
12
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Foodbank of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%23%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
11%
3,806/34,364

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 91 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
28/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $40,000 · OtherZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAMAHONING LODGE #339 — $40,000 · OtherMAHONING LODGE #339OH WOW ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHDRNS CTR — $26,000 · OtherOH WOW ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHDRNS CTRUNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN — $22,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWNFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DENFENSE FORCES — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DENFENSE FORCESWARREN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $16,123 · OtherNEOMED FOUNDATION (NEOUCOM) — $15,000 · Other+54 more — $172,914 · Other+54 moreYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FOUNDATION — $79,000 · ReligionYOUNGSTOWN AREA JE…COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN — $25,000 · ReligionCOMMISSION FOR JEW…+2 more — $2,500 · ReligionYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION — $39,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN A…YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL — $8,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN F…UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY — $7,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL E…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH F…THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED W…+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE — $12,001 · Arts & CultureBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA Western Reserve Inc — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $3,050 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTERN RESERVE — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $14,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES — $12,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN STRING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $4,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $20,000 · HealthYELLOW BRICK PLACE — $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER — $1,500 · HealthHelms Foundation — $1,000 · Health
Other$352,037Religion$106,500Philanthropy$72,000Arts & Culture$38,551Human Services$37,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Health$24,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FOUNDATION — $79,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION — $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE — $12,001 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInspiring Minds — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST — $7,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY — $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOPERA Western Reserve Inc — $6,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $3,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINKS INC YOUNGSTOWN OH CHAPTER — $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBALLET WESTERN RESERVE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYELLOW BRICK PLACE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Jewish Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelms Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ENGLISH CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL - YOUNGSTOWN ROTARY CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOak Hill Collaborative Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Premier Bank Foundati…Youngstown Fdn GeneralThe Raymond John Wean…Senator Maurice & Flo…Youngstown Area Jewis…Walter E & Caroline H…Zita M and Joseph Diy…Frank & Pearl Gelbman…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Ruth Beecher H XI Cha…Youngstown Area Jewis…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH55.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Premier Bank Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Youngstown Area Jewish 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 Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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

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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How do I get to Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008?

Find your warmest path to Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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