Ohio · Public charity
Mercer County Civic Foundation
Community foundation
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $384k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Mercer County Civic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $384k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $348k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $314k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $272k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $1.5M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $1.5M | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer Residential Services Inc | $83,450 | 5 | 1% |
| Jtd Hospital Foundation | $68,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Choosing Life Pregnancy Resource Center | $61,250 | 6 | 10% |
| Family Care Options Inc | $39,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Mercer County Fairgrounds Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fort Recovery Area Arts Council | $22,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Hand-Up Village Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 12% |
| St Anthony Dinner Theater | $19,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Private Duty Services Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mav Youth Mentoring Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer Residential Services Inc | $83,450 | 5 | 1% |
| Jtd Hospital Foundation | $68,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Choosing Life Pregnancy Resource Center | $61,250 | 6 | 10% |
| Family Care Options Inc | $39,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Mercer County Fairgrounds Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fort Recovery Area Arts Council | $22,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Hand-Up Village Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 12% |
| St Anthony Dinner Theater | $19,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Private Duty Services Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mav Youth Mentoring Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Hospice of Darke County Inc Dba Everheart Hospice | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Venturelinx | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cancer Association of Mercer County | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Foundations Behavioral Health Services | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mercer County Civic Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Mercer County Civic Foundation
- How much does Mercer County Civic Foundation give?
- Mercer County Civic Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $383,784, out of $4,508,866 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mercer County Civic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (39%), Education (39%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Mercer County Civic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercer Residential Services Inc ($83k), Jtd Hospital Foundation ($68k), Choosing Life Pregnancy Resource Center ($61k).
- Does Mercer County Civic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mercer County Civic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Mercer County Civic Foundation based?
- Mercer County Civic Foundation is based in OH.
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