· Private foundation
Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EL EMETH | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION OHEV BETH SHOLOM | $2,000 |
| MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST | $1,500 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY | $1,000 |
| WYSU 885 FM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| JEWISH CHILDRENS ADOPTION NETWORK | $500 |
| GREENVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $500 |
| YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +42%
- YBYELLOW BRICK PLACE3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +264%
- JIJBI INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HNHELP NETWORK OF NE OHIOone grant, 2021 · $2k
- SLSILVER LINING CANCER FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The mission of the youngstown area jewish federation is to sustain and enrich the quality of life for the jewish people regionally, in israel and worldwide. we are guided by the values of tzedkah (righteousness), klal yisrael (the…
The public library of youngstown and mahoning county connects people and communities to reliable resources that inspire learning and foster enrichment. this mission is accomplished through providing print resources, media resources,…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Helping underserved communities in Youngstown ohio
To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
To provide public service journalism to people in ohio.
The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Aging services to senior citizens, senior center operations, senior trips, senior health promotions, nutritional programs, emergency assistance, and numerous senior activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Legal Aid Services and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 53 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BRICK PLACE ↗
- Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING CANCER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CADENCE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL - YOUNGSTOWN ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN BLUE COATS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley
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 Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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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