· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN | $25,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,540 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,595 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,474 |
| HELMS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HEART REACH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MCGUFFEY CENTRE | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF YOUNGSTOWN | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,500 |
| BOARDMAN COMMUNITY BASEBALL | $12,000 |
| MOAB INC | $12,000 |
| OAKHILL COLLABORATIVE INC | $8,750 |
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 (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 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 +5% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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
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 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
- ASADAPTIVE SPORTS OF OHIOone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CFCOMPASS FAMILY ANDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The English Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 67 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 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 HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 J Ford Crandall Depository 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.