· Private foundation
Freese Arthur J Fdn 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARA BEEGLE CHILD CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GALION COMMUNITY THEATER | $10,000 |
| GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB | $10,000 |
| COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GALION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $9,311 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATECOLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| YMCA | $7,000 |
| GALION CITY SCHOOLS BOOSTER CLUB | $5,376 |
| GALION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PRESERVING GALION INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO | $3,500 |
| CRAWFORD PARK ASTRONOMY CLUB | $3,347 |
| GALION HISTORY CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GCGALION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +24%
- GEGALION ELEMENTARY PTO3× · 2021–2023 · $24k · revenue +28%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- GHGALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -13%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +156%
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 acquire and maintain a public library and reading room which will be free to inhabitants of the city of galion.
Civil projects for the galion area
Increasing public awareness of the performing arts
The organization promotes the football program within the community and will subsidize, at the clubs descretion, various aspects of the football program
Public library services
Community library services
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Philanthropic support of the Gleason Public Library through the use of funds from gifts received and investment income.
Promotion of youth sports activities in central ohio and surrounding areas.
To inspire philanthropy and to provide financial support to galion and bucyrus community hospitals in order to enhance healthcare services and to improve the well being of the residents of our communities.
Public Library for the Community
To operate a museum and related sites and to make education programming and collections accessible through traditional and contemporary methods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galion Community Center - Ymca and the most unlike its peers is North Central State College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GALION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GALION ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds Galion Community Center - YMCA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALION CITY SCHOOLS BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO 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: Boyd Ralph E Foundation Succ-Ta · Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn · Galion Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Crawford County · Richland County Foundation · 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 Freese Arthur J Fdn 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.
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