· Private foundation
Massillon Rotary Foundation Trust
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MASSILLON | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN STARK COUNTY | $18,916 |
| WILMOT FIRE RESCUE INC | $16,871 |
| VANTAGE AGING | $10,000 |
| COMQUEST SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| THE LEGACY PROJECT OF STARK | $10,000 |
| AULTMAN COLLEGE OF NURSING | $9,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $6,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN- EAST CENTRAL OHIO | $5,000 |
| HEART OF OHIO DIAPER BANK | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN STARK COUNTY | $4,981 |
| ACCESS HEALTH STARK COUNTY | $4,500 |
| MALONE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +23%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +41%
- BGBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC3× · 2018–2022 · $57k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- WGWhispering Grace Horsesone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +13%
- MYMassillon Youth Sports Associationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +48%
- FOFriends of Stark Parksgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +147%
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.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Manchester University respects the infinite worth of every individual and graduates persons of ability and conviction who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives that improve the human…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Health Stark County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Action. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 61 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 Young Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY PROJECT OF STARK ↗
- Who funds Ahead Inc ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds Whispering Grace Horses ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds Massillon Youth Sports Association ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Stark County ↗
- Who funds Friends of Stark Parks ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSISTANCE SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Stark County Diaper Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS HEALTH STARK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION OF WESTERN STARK COUNTY 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: Stark Community Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · North Canton Medical Foundation · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Rodney G Klein Stock Market Museum · Aultman Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · William & Minnette Goldsmith 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 Massillon Rotary Foundation Trust 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.