· Private foundation
John Q Shunk Association
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,750 |
| PROJECTS INC | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $6,250 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $5,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNCIL ON AGING | $4,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY | $3,750 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CRAWFO | $3,500 |
| BUCYRUS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,494 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 74% of your 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.
52 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- PIPROJECTS INC4× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +185%
- TUThe University of Findlay8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +4%
- ONOhio Northern University8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BHBUCYRUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SPST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Oakwood Cemetery Association. 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 65 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 76 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 PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD WORKS ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds Bluffton University ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
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 Community Foundation for Crawford County · Premier Bank Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdn Paulding County Area Foundation · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Columbus Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · Berry Marie D Fd H Pfdn · Council of Independent Colleges · Ibm International Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund
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 Q Shunk Association 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.
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