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J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn at a glance

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J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.2MHealth$4.0MRecreation & Sports$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.4MArts & Culture$1.7MHousing & Shelter$987kHuman Services$776kYouth Development$734kOther$0
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $201k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $982k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
$10,078
Median grant
8
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VILLAGE OF ROSEVILLE$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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY: $8k → 10%NEW HORIZON SERVICE DOGS INC: $5k → 12%PAVING THE WAY FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SERVICE OVER SELF: $20k → 17%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%HOPE HELPS INC: $1k → 11%HEART HANDS AND HOPE: $5k → 11%KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC: $10k → 11%FOREVER DADS: $75k → 14%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $62k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE: $52k → 14%MID-OHIO MOBILITY SOLUTIONS: $35k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE: $33k → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $32k → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $21k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE: $21k → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $15k → 14%FOREVER DADS: $13k → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $12k → 14%FOREVER DADS: $11k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE: $9k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE: $2k → 14%FOREVER DADS: $1k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE LLC: $900 → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $500 → 14%FOREVER DADS: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
TN
NC
AL
TX
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 108 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
102

Total granted

$16M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+6%

Still filing today

43%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $593k · revenue +210%
  • TI
    TRANSITIONS INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $319k · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget
  • TA
    The Animal Shelter Society Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $153k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • M
    MVHC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • MC
    MUSKINGUM COUNTY CONVENTION FACILITIES AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • OS
    Ohio State Parks Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $385k · revenue +5% · 60% of their budget
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.

1
The Zanesville Development Corporation

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.

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2
Muskingum Recreation Center

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Muskingum Economic Opportunity Action Group

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…

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4
Pathway Caring for Children

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.

Health
5
Lake Humane Society

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,…

Animals
6
Ozark Center

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.

Health
7
The Homeless Families Foundation

The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
8
Freestore Foodbank Inc

Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio

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.

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10
Vista Village Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
The Arc Tampa Bay Inc

The mission of the arc tampa bay, inc. is to support and empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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12
Family Service Association of Bucks County

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
44/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO UNIVERSITY - ZANESVILLE: $1,584,999 · OtherOHIO UNIVERSITY - ZANESVILLECITY OF ZANESVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,306,300 · OtherCITY OF ZANESVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTMUSKINGUM VALLEY PARK DISTRICT: $1,116,891 · OtherMUSKINGUM VALLEY PARK DISTRICTMUSKINGUM COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $1,064,607 · OtherMUSKINGUM COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMMVHC: $1,000,000 · OtherMVHCGENESIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $664,874 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $593,200 · Other+160 more: $8,937,806 · Other+160 moreTHE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,132,738 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSKINGU…TRULIGHT MINISTRIES: $237,672 · PhilanthropyTRULIGHT MIN…+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $1,250,600 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $85,500 · EducationMUSKINGUM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $232,545 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $145,000 · HealthBreaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $94,880 · Health+1 more: $5,500 · HealthThe Animal Shelter Society Inc: $153,084 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $152,286 · AnimalsPAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY: $136,000 · AnimalsCentral Florida Zoological Society Inc: $20,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsHOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC: $116,282 · Human ServicesFOREVERDADS: $99,996 · Human ServicesMUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $80,597 · Human ServicesLicking County Family YMCA: $61,500 · Human ServicesMID-OHIO MOBILITY SOLUTIONS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesService Over Self Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $37,500 · Human ServicesOhio State Parks Foundation: $385,000 · EnvironmentJEFFCO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Environment
Other$16,268,677Philanthropy$2,377,910Education$1,551,100Health$477,925Animals$471,370Human Services$450,875Environment$405,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,132,738 over 8y, 13% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $1,250,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $593,200 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetOhio State Parks Foundation: $385,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC: $353,325 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTRANSITIONS INC: $319,256 over 6y, 26% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $255,255 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetTRULIGHT MINISTRIES: $237,672 over 4y, 56% of budgetMUSKINGUM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $232,545 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE CARR CENTER INC: $208,061 over 5y, 22% of budgetABBOT HOME: $166,795 over 4y, 37% of budgetThe Animal Shelter Society Inc: $153,084 over 3y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $152,286 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF APPALACHIAN OHIO: $146,384 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $145,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY: $136,000 over 6y, 55% of budgetZANESVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE: $128,934 over 3y, 58% of budgetHOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC: $116,282 over 6y, 30% of budgetALLWELL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES: $108,776 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOREVERDADS: $99,996 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetBreaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $94,880 over 3y, 38% of budgetNELSON T GANT FOUNDATION: $93,467 over 2y, 43% of budgetMUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $80,597 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE: $75,784 over 4y, 21% of budgetZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $68,199 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetHELEN PURCELL HOME: $61,777 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLicking County Family YMCA: $61,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC: $35,799 over 3y, 15% of budgetZANESVILLE MUSKINGUM COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTRI-VALLEY BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION: $34,904 over 2y, 20% of budgetMAYSVILLE YOUTH LEAGUE BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $32,005 over 1y, 21% of budgetMUSKINGUM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $29,514 over 3y, 51% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $27,490 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetZANESVILLE DAY NURSERY: $26,813 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPIONEER & HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO: $26,245 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Florida Zoological Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetService Over Self Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEFFCO OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Muskingum County …Robert E Fellers and …Taylor-McHenry Memori…Energy Cooperative Ro…Park National Corpora…Rogge Cora E Memorial…Littick Arline Clay C…Foundation for Appala…The Jeff and Jennie S…The Knights Foundatio…Adams Family Foundati…United Way of Musking…
The Muskingum County Community FoundationOH61.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 253 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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