· Private foundation
John Q Shunk Association
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 76 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 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 Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Q Shunk Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Q Shunk Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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