How much does Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn give?

Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn reported 6 grants totaling $21,528 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.

What does Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (21%), Membership Benefit (15%).

Who are Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Avita Health Foundation ($120k), Galion Community Center - YMCA ($112k), The Sara Beegle Child Day Care Center ($69k).

Does Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boyd Ralph E Foundation Succ-Ta, The Community Foundation for Crawford County, Freese Arthur J Fdn Tw.

Where is Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn based?

Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn is based in OH.

Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn

Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k4 grants · $2k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$509

Median grant

States reached

$143k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY	$509
FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST	$509
32ND DEGREE MASONIC LEARNING CENTER	$255
GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$255

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$814k · 20 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$814k

$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%

-14%

Still filing today

45%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AH
AVITA HEALTH FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +109%
GF
GALION FARIVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
4× · 2021–2025 · $120k
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
WL
WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2025 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

Galion Community Hospital

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

Health

Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals

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.

—

Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

—

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…

—

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Union Hospital Inc

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

Health

Ohio Insurance Institute

Representation of the ohio property & casualty insurance industry.

—

Greater Cleveland Community Credit Union Inc

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

—

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…

—

Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crawford County Shared Health Services Inc; 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, 2017–2026.

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. 12 of the 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

2/12

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$639,034Health$131,000Arts & Culture$54,242Human Services$44,703Education$40,000Recreation & Sports$16,311Crime & Legal$5,000International$4,000

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.

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.

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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