· Private foundation
Luke Manufacturing Foundation
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH | $9,200 |
| WADSWORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $5,966 |
| SALVATION ARMY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| RITTMAN EXENOTED VILLAGE SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| BELLEFONTAINE CITY SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| WADSWORTH CITY SCHOOLS | $1,295 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND | $1,100 |
| GIRL SCOUT TROOP 91108 | $726 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $250 |
| WADSWORTH ALL SPORT BOOSTERS | $225 |
| WADSWORTH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $200 |
| GREAT TRAIL BOY SCOUT COUNCIL | $200 |
| RITTMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $200 |
| NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL | $125 |
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 (FY21–21, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue -88%
- SASALVATION ARMY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN4× · 2021–2024 · $20k
- WCWADSWORTH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT4× · 2021–2024 · $2k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WHWADSWORTH HS FRESHMAN ACADEMY GRANTone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Promote/improve business and stimulate growth
Founded for the sole purpose of promoting economic growth in the eastern lakes region
The Wadsworth Public Library Foundation was established to seek, receive and administer gifts, bequests and donations for the support and preservation of the Wadsworth Public Library, beyond the level of taxpayer responsibility and in a…
Promote business and economic development
To develop and maintain a downtown identity that will continually advance the quality of the community's social, cultural and commercial environment.
The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.
The Massillon WestStark Chamber of Commerce exists to develop, enhance, and represent business, promote economic growth, and improve the quality of life for our community.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
Establish Westfield as a preferred destination for people to want to live, work and visit.
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
The foundation is designed to enhance the educational opportunities within wethersfield community unit school district no 230.
Advance the economic and community development of the winfield area through leadership, education, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rittman Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 40 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 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH YOUTH FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WADSWORTH OLDER ADULTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RITTMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Medina County ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE AVIATION ↗
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: Akron Community 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 Luke Manufacturing 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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