· Private foundation
J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $982k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $1,001,000 |
| CITY OF ZANESVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $1,000,000 |
| MUSKINGUM VALLEY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO | $420,000 |
| MUSKINGUM VALLEY PARK DISTRICT | $338,372 |
| GENESIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $306,250 |
| MUSKINGUM BEHAVIOR HEALTH | $196,545 |
| ZANESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $193,769 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $167,880 |
| Individual grant recipient | $115,224 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $99,353 |
| HARRISON TOWNSHIP MUSKINGUM COUNTY | $72,471 |
| VILLAGE OF SOUTH ZANESVILLE | $68,422 |
| EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $64,514 |
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 (FY18–25, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
108 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 40 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO7× · 2019–2025 · $593k · revenue +210%
- TITRANSITIONS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $319k · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget
- TAThe Animal Shelter Society Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $153k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- MMVHCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- MCMUSKINGUM COUNTY CONVENTION FACILITIES AUTHORITYone grant, 2022 · $500k
- OSOhio State Parks Foundationone grant, 2022 · $385k · revenue +5% · 60% of their budget
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.
To help the muskingum valley park district in collaboration with the city of zanesville to develop a parks and receation master plan. to provide services to the people of muskingum county.
Dedicated to providing residents and visitors a safe, clean, and well maintained facility that promotes health, education, and recreation through a network of quality programs, activities, and amenities.
The organization's mission is to establish effective programs that mobilize and utilize bothpublic and private resources in a proactive and concerted attack on poverty in muskingum county, ohio and its surrounding areas by establishing and…
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.
The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity-midohio brings people together to inspire hope, build homes, empower families, and develop communities.
This organization's main activities will be to maintain a residential community that serves as transitional housing for the homeless population. the activities include developing the community, creating partnerships with other…
The mission of the arc tampa bay, inc. is to support and empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Abbot Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 253 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds Ohio State Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRULIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOT HOME ↗
- Who funds The Animal Shelter Society Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC ↗
- Who funds ALLWELL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOREVERDADS ↗
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: The Muskingum County Community Foundation · Robert E Fellers and Leona L Fellers Foundation Trust · Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · Rogge Cora E Memorial Foundation · Littick Arline Clay Charitable Trust · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · The Jeff and Jennie Sidwell Family Foundation · The Knights Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation · United Way of Muskingum Perry and Morgan Counties Inc
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 William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn 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.
- Kids House of Seminole Inc — 10% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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