· Private foundation
John D Finnegan Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (NEOME | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- YFYSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- MMMILLCREEK METROPARKSone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John D Finnegan Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D Finnegan Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
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