· Private foundation
James & Coralie Centofanti Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of JAMES & CORALIE CENTOFANTI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY | $140,000 |
| YSU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| URSULINE SISTERS OF YOUNGSTOWN | $100,000 |
| CANFIELD FAIR FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MAHONING VALLEY | $45,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MAHONING COUNTY | $35,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| GOLDEN STRING INC | $15,000 |
| CANFIELD SCHOOLS | $11,500 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LOCAL SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| SOPHIA WOMEN'S CENTER | $7,500 |
| LIT YOUNGSTOWN | $7,500 |
| SALEM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY HEARTS AND PAWS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 87% 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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $544k · revenue +5%
- BHBEATITUDE HOUSE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $155k · revenue +209%
- CFCANFIELD FAIR FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +375%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN CENTERone grant, 2023 · $29k
- CPCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +17%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 purpose of the mahoning valley historical society foundation is to carry out the charitable activities of the community foundation of the mahoning valley related to or in promotion of the mahoning valley historical society, including…
The purpose of the foundation is to carry out the charitable activities of the community foundation of the mahoning valley related to or in promotion of health care services or health care education in youngstown or mahoning county.
To directly provide services to improve the quality of life of low-to-moderate income residents of mahoning county in partnership with other organizations.
To educate, advocate, and empower the community to prevent substance abuse and mental illness across the lifespan in mahoning county.
The purpose of the organization is to provide access to healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured residents within the mahoning valley, specifically mahoning and trumbull counties.
The purpose of the foundation is to carry out the charitable activities of the community foundation of the mahoning valley related to or in promotion of health care services or health career education in warren or trumbull county.
To solidify and accelerate downtown youngstown's resurgence as a center of employment, higher education, government services & culture, and to serve as a catalyst for overall economic development in the mahoning valley.
To exhibit historical educational material
To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
Malachi house, created out of a christian sense of ministry, serves persons who are terminally ill, without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin and without cost to the resident of family. this home ministers to individuals…
To provide access to quality primary health care to the medically underserved population of the tri-state ohio valley.
The purpose of the hope foundation of the mahoning valley is the furtherance of the chartiable, financial support, and volunteer services to and for chronically and/or terminally ill children on a local, regional, and/or national level.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties and the most unlike its peers is Melina Michelle Edenfield Foundatio. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 97 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 KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANFIELD FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds CANFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
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: Premier Bank Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · John D Finnegan Fdn · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · The Schwebel Family Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw
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 James & Coralie Centofanti 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.