· Public charity
Licking Memorial Health Foundation
LICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION exists to improve the health of the community.
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.
The 24 grants below total $984,087 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,331,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $347,657 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LICKING COUNTY HOUSING INVESTMENT FUND LLC | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MID OHIO | $73,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $51,500 |
| LICKING COUNTY TRANSIT | $50,000 |
| NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL OHIO INC | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $35,725 |
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY | $23,197 |
| BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA | $15,500 |
| OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES | $11,634 |
| WATKINS MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $11,014 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $11,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CENTRAL OHIO | $11,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k 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
- NCNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $550k · revenue +6%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO8× · 2017–2024 · $324k · revenue +93%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TKTHE KNOX COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +3%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY SERVICES FOR LICKING AND KNOX COUNTIESone grant, 2022 · $39k
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.
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.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Promote higher business standards in realtors of licking county
The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.
To promote the general economic welfare and prosperity of the Lawrence County, Ohio area to the end objective that its citizens and businesses shall grow and prosper.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Ohio high school athletic association is a not-for-profit association of public and private high schools and 7th-8th grade schools. approximately 820 high schools and nearly 760 7th-8th grade schools belong to the ohsaa, which represents…
Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.
Conduct various programs to promote an understanding and appreciation for the history of the area as well as to preserve artifacts
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Thomas J Evans Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Par Excellence Academy ↗
- Who funds THE KNOX COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Granville Athletic Boosters ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INDEPENDENT FAIR ↗
- Who funds NEWARK MIDLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NORTHRIDGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF LICKING COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEATH ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Newark Organization for the Creative Art ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds LOOK UP MINISTRIES ↗
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: Licking County Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · First Federal Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · The Lindorf Family Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation · The Lefevre Foundation · United Way of Licking County Inc · The Gilbert Reese 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 Licking Memorial Health 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.
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