· Private foundation
National Machinery Foundation Inc
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 $10k47 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $228k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $169,261 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| OLD TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN | $100,000 |
| HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| TIFFIN CITY SCHOOLS | $57,733 |
| TIFFIN-SENECA UNITED WAY | $55,000 |
| HOPE'S LANDING | $50,000 |
| TIFFIN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SENECA COUNTY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNE | $41,090 |
| FIRST STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVIC | $27,682 |
| EAST GREEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CITIZENSHIP AWARDS TO STUDENTS-100 | $24,575 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $18,750 |
| CASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
110 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 21 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k 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
- HUHeidelberg University8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +2%
- TUTiffin University8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +27%
- COCASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT COUNTIES6× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $117k
- TCTIFFIN CALVERT CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $102k
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.
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.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
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.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
A learning community dedicated to academic excellence and service.
Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…
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…
To be the most influential and respected association of business professionals in Northwest Ohio shaping a positive business environment that promotes the exchange of goods and services to make a profit.
Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
To provide, manage and operate such education related services for the finger lakes community college community, including facult, staff, and students, in harmony with the educational mission and goals of the college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tiffin Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hope in Fostoria. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds EAST GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN SENECA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES LANDING ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FOSTORIA LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SENECA COUNTY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN SENECA TEEN CENTER ↗
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: Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation · Cole Family Foundation · Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable · Seneca Industrial & Economic Development Corp · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Webster Foundation Inc · The Pruina Corporation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Edward R Pillars Irr · The Twenty First Century 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 National Machinery Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
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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