· Private foundation
John D Finnegan 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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INNOVATION CENTER | $75,000 |
| MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (NEOME | $5,000 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +66% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +85%
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +208%
- BHBEATITUDE HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- YFYSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
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 operate for charitable purposes that exclusively benefit or carry out the charitable, educational and/or economic development purposes of the youngstown/warren regional chamber.
To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
The memorial health foundation encourages philanthropic support of marietta memorial hospital and related services. activities include raising funds, fund stewardship and making grants to improve health care in the mid-ohio valley.
To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.
To help organize and self-regulate those who deal with real estate in the mahoning and columbiana county areas of ohio.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Butler Institute of American Art. 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 57 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
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: Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Premier Bank Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Florence S Beecher Fdn · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Schwebel Family Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · James & Coralie Centofanti Charitable Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Fibushendricks Family Foundation
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 John D Finnegan 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.
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.