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Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Human Services$233kEducation$191kMembership Benefit$141kHealth$131kReligion$70kArts & Culture$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kRecreation & Sports$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$144k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GALION COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA$20,000
SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER$20,000
GALION FARIVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$20,000
AVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE$15,000
WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$10,000
COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF$10,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
GALION COMMUNITY THEATRE$9,755
GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY$7,284
GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB$4,603
FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT$1,900
SALVATION ARMY$1,169
FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,169
32ND DEGREE MASONIC LEARNING CENTER$585
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, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $30k → 11%GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $7k → 11%GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $5k → 11%GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB: $4k → 11%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$792k · 20 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$792k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
-14%

Still filing today

45%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • GF
    GALION FARIVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $120k
  • AH
    AVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +109%
  • GC
    Galion Community Center - YMCA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $112k · revenue -23%

Funded once

  • GH
    GALION HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CC
    CRAWFORD COUNTY SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • AC
    ALEXANDRIA C AWBREY CO NORTH CENTRAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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
Galion Community Hospital

To improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
3
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

4
Granville Ohio Historical Society

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.

5
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
6
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
Greater Cleveland Community Credit Union Inc

GCCCU is a credit union that provides financial services to its owner/members.

10
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

11
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
12
Oucu Financial Credit Union Fka Ohio University Credit Union

Provide financial services to its members.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crawford County Shared Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Crawford Park District Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
2/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GALION FARIVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $120,000 · OtherGALION FARIVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONGalion Community Center - YMCA — $112,016 · OtherGalion Community Center - YMCATHE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER — $69,150 · OtherTHE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTERCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF — $60,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES OFNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE — $53,000 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGEAMERICAN RED CROSS — $27,500 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $27,049 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION SCORBROUGH POST 243 — $21,396 · Other+16 more — $137,650 · Other+16 moreAVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $120,000 · HealthAVITA HEALTH FOU…CRAWFORD COUNTY SHARED HEALTH SERVICES INC — $11,000 · HealthCRAWFORD COUNTY …GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $27,309 · Arts & CultureGALION COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $26,678 · Arts & CultureGALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB INC — $44,703 · Human ServicesASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationOtterbein University — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC — $16,311 · Recreation & SportsOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $4,000 · International
Other$627,761Health$131,000Arts & Culture$53,987Human Services$44,703Education$30,000Recreation & Sports$16,311Crime & Legal$5,000International$4,000

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 budgetAVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetGalion Community Center - YMCA — $112,016 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER — $69,150 over 3y, 11% of budgetGALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB INC — $44,703 over 4y, 30% of budgetGALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $27,309 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetGALION COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $26,678 over 2y, 15% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC — $16,311 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY SHARED HEALTH SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOtterbein University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds AVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Galion Community Center - YMCA
  • Who funds THE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER
  • Who funds GALION GOLDEN AGE CLUB INC
  • Who funds GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds GALION COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC
  • Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY SHARED HEALTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Otterbein University
  • Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

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.

Boyd Ralph E Foundation Succ-TaOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boyd Ralph E Foundation Succ-Ta · The Community Foundation for Crawford County · Freese Arthur J Fdn Tw · Galion Community Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family 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 Hessenauer W R Char Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn?

    Find your warmest path to Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn 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 34 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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