· Private foundation
Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD CARE CENTER | $65,750 |
| TIFFIN UNIVERSITY | $47,875 |
| SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,875 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,750 |
| SISTERS IN SHELTER | $21,123 |
| CSJI-TIFFIN INC | $10,000 |
| United Way of North Central Ohio Inc | $10,000 |
| FISH OF TIFFIN | $5,000 |
| TILLY S CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- TUTiffin University6× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +27%
- HUHeidelberg University4× · 2018–2023 · $171k · revenue +4%
- TTTHE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $96k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- OTOLD TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $81k
- SCSENECA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14% · 54% of their budget
- TTTIFFIN THEATRE INCone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue -11%
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.
Provided affordable, quality child care to residents of the tiffin, oh area
To improve the economic well-being and quality of life for tiffin and seneca county, ohio, by leading, promoting, and facilitating positive economic, community and downtown development.
To support people with disabilities to achieve full community access leading to a meaningful and productive life, by encouraging and assisting personal choice and goals of each individual.
Promote local agriculture to residents
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
Efficiently allocate and organize donations to local charitable organizations.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
Various help for teens
Preservation and betterment of historical events, structures and artifacts in and around tiffin, ohio.
To provide opportunities to individualsover 50 years of age in tuscarawas county, ohiothrough healthy living, independence, physical andmental health, education, and recreational programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tiffin Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Green Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 TIFFIN SENECA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds THE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CSJI-TIFFIN INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SENECA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAST GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN EARTH LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA COMMUNITY CHAPLAIN CORP ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT OF FREMONT ↗
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: National Machinery Foundation Inc · Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation · Cole Family Foundation · Seneca Industrial & Economic Development Corp · Columbus Foundation · The Pruina Corporation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable 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.