· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALION COMMUNITY THEATER | $10,000 |
| COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SARA BEEGLE CHILD CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB | $10,000 |
| GALION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $9,311 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATECOLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| YMCA | $7,000 |
| GALION CITY SCHOOLS BOOSTER CLUB | $5,376 |
| PRESERVING GALION INC | $5,000 |
| GALION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO | $3,500 |
| CRAWFORD PARK ASTRONOMY CLUB | $3,347 |
| GALION HISTORY CENTER | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freese Arthur J Fdn Tw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freese Arthur J Fdn Tw. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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