· Private foundation
Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY | $41,870 |
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 (FY17–21, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- YCYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +428% · 28% of their budget
- OWOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +53%
- BIBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART6× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- AJAmerican Junior Golf Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +63%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- CCChildrens Center for Science &one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The youngstown state university foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that supports student scholarships, student development, and career opportunities
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To improve the quality of life for all youth and promote their active participation as responsible members of a diverse society. with serious concern for youth with special needs, the boys and girls' club of massillon helps youth recognize…
Provide services for elderly
To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To provide financial support for the youth opportunity center, inc.
To provide wyoming and the surrounding community aunique, state-of-the-art facility for competition, training, and special events, while emphasizing the importanceof physical and mental health and promoting an active lifestyle for our…
Working together to improve the quality of life and health of the yamhill community by coordinating effective care.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Fdn General and the most unlike its peers is Butler Institute of American Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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 YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER 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: Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · John D Finnegan Fdn · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · The John L Dunne & Jenifer Lloyd Family Foundation · Lamb Jane Charitable Fdn · Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
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 Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable Foundation 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.