· Private foundation
J Ford Crandall Depository
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN | $25,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,540 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,595 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,474 |
| HEART REACH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF YOUNGSTOWN | $15,000 |
| HELMS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MCGUFFEY CENTRE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,500 |
| BOARDMAN COMMUNITY BASEBALL | $12,000 |
| MOAB INC | $12,000 |
| OAKHILL COLLABORATIVE INC | $8,750 |
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, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YCYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +407%
- SMSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +86%
- PHPAISLEY HOUSE2× · 2022–2023 · $29k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- RMREUBEN MCMILLIAN FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CFCOMPASS FAMILY ANDone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
The coleman center for the arts, cca, is a contemporary arts organization that uses art to foster positive social change, answer civic needs, build local pride, and use creativity for community problem solving.
Youngstown area goodwill industries actively strives to achieve full participation in society of people with disabilities and special needs by expanding opportunities, capabilities, and independence.
Plan and develop housing for low to moderate income families and elder residents in the yorktown neighborhood of the city of philadelphia, pa and to conduct other programs to address the general resident concerns.
To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community
To provide training to electrical apprentices in mahoning and trumbull counties, and through that training to provide skilled workers to area employers.
Art possible ohio makes the arts and arts education experiences more accessible and inclusive for people with any disabilities and their support networks.
Supervision for needy children
To support children and families.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 67 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 OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PAISLEY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOARDMAN COMMUNITY BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Hill Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MKC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Aimee and Lulu Seidel Trust · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Ford Crandall Depository funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Ford Crandall Depository. Bigger dots raise more.
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