· Private foundation
Logan Holl Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Logan Holl Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Foundation For Appalachian Ohio, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Logan Holl Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $59k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOGAN THEATER INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOCK CO AG SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BRIGHTEN YOUR FUTURE | $5,000 |
| MINNIE BOWEN FUND | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF HOCKING COUNTY | $3,623 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,375 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| HOCKING HILLS CHILDREN MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO JOB & FAMILY | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| BOWEN HOUSE | $1,600 |
| HOCKING HILLS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,600 |
| HOCKING COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $1,200 |
| HAPCAP | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 59% of Logan Holl Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HVHOCKING VALLEY INDUSTRIES INC2× · 2018–2021 · $22k · revenue +20%
- BYBRIGHTEN YOUR FUTURE3× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +45%
- LTLOGAN THEATER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +292%
Funded once
- HCHOCKING COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $12k
- HVHOCKING VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $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.
The prevention of cruelty to animals in holmes county, ohio through education and awareness.
Historical building preservation
Economic Development
Organize and promote tourism.
To inspire visitors of all ages to explore and discover the world we live in through interactive exhibits and creative experiences.
Non profit historical society
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hocking Hills Childrens Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brighten Your Future. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds HOCKING VALLEY INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTEN YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds LOGAN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Hocking Hills Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds THE BOWEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Hocking County ↗
- Who funds HOCKING HILLS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKING HILLS INSPIRE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HOCKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Hocking Hills Tourism Assocation · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Park National Corporation Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Logan Holl 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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