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Ohio Association of Foodbanks Inc

Our mission is to assist ohio's 12 feeding america member affiliated foodbanks with providing food and resources to people in need and to pursue areas of common interest for the benefit of people in need.

$46M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$30MHealth$4.5MHuman Services$665kPhilanthropy$67kCommunity Improvement$58kReligion$16kEmployment$9kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $9,807,455 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $45,617,796 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,810,341 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $619k
  • $250k+13 grants · $9.2M
$370,630
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC$1,953,539
MID-OHIO FOODBANK$1,941,838
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC$1,230,760
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$651,285
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK$475,431
CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK$469,009
UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ACTION NETWORK OF OHIO$453,000
THE FOODBANK INC$378,784
TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY CARENET$370,630
SHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC$366,568
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$329,725
SOUTHEAST OHIO FOODBANK$287,034
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MAHONING VALLEY$256,235
WEST OHIO FOOD BANK$249,182
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF CCL$207,377
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Pickaway County Community Action: $8k → 10%The New Path Inc: $3k → 10%Community Action WayneMedina: $7k → 10%Northwestern Ohio Community Action: $10k → 11%Highland County Community Action: $5k → 15%Jefferson County Community Action: $5k → 19%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY: $98k → 20%POTTER'S HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 22%Pickaway County Community A: $6k → 10%Community Action WayneMedi: $6k → 10%Northwestern Ohio Community: $7k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY: $70k → 20%The Potters House Ministries Inc: $6k → 22%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY: $66k → 20%The Potters House Ministries: $5k → 22%Opportunity Matters DBA: $5k → 16%Young Womens Christian Assoc: $7k → 19%Community Action Committee of Pike: $7k → 20%Caring Connection: $5k → 15%Thea Bowman Center: $7k → 17%Young Womens Christian Ass: $4k → 19%Community Action Committee: $4k → 20%Thea Bowman Center: $4k → 17%New Directions Career Center: $3k → 15%COLUMBUS EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $8k → 15%Vineyard Community Center: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$35M · 38 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
30

Total granted

$35M
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+6%

Still filing today

92%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +13%
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +61%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TS
    TOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue -2%
  • TW
    THE WELL AT SUNNYSIDE
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -65%
  • UN
    UNITED NORTH CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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2
The Food Pantry Network of Licking County

Distribution of food to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
3
Alliance Community Pantry Inc

The mission of the food pantry is to eliminate food insecurity in the alliance ohio area for residents who qualify under the guidelines of the ohio job and family services.

Human Services
4
Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency

Through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs, our dedicated team is breaking down barriers to equity and opportunity, while building self-sufficiency across generations.

Human Services
5
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
6
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
7
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
8
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…

Community Improvement
9
Produce Perks Midwest Inc

To improve the health of under-served communities by increasing affordable access to healthy food.

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10
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
11
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Fairhaven 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%63%35–55yr20%19%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/69
the rest of the field
11%
8,035/74,237

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 68 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $7,242,847 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INCFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $4,641,129 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INCAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $2,383,083 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANKTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK — $1,733,284 · Food & NutritionTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANKTHE FOODBANK INC — $1,375,254 · Food & NutritionTHE FOODBANK INCSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $1,191,255 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIOSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY — $1,061,767 · Food & NutritionWest Ohio Food Bank — $866,312 · Food & NutritionOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $722,673 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $51,641 · Food & NutritionMid-Ohio Foodbank — $6,434,166 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC — $1,361,792 · OtherSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INCHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION — $978,365 · OtherHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY AC…MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS — $606,944 · OtherMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS+26 more — $491,689 · OtherTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC — $1,324,248 · HealthTOLEDO LUCAS…CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK INC — $1,281,708 · HealthCHARITABLE H…UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK OF OHIO INC — $1,181,727 · HealthUNIVERSAL HE…+2 more — $10,968 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY INC — $316,481 · Human ServicesPOTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI — $16,000 · Human Services+12 more — $86,679 · Human ServicesADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES — $40,143 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC — $12,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT — $4,286 · Community ImprovementUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $17,532 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC — $16,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY DBA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF WARREN — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS CARE NETWORK — $7,000 · Public Benefit
Food & Nutrition$21,269,245Other$9,872,956Health$3,798,651Human Services$459,160Community Improvement$56,429Philanthropy$33,532Housing & Shelter$7,000Public Benefit$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $7,242,847 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $6,434,166 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $4,641,129 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $2,383,083 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK — $1,733,284 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $1,375,254 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC — $1,361,792 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC — $1,324,248 over 4y, 37% of budgetCHARITABLE HEALTHCARE NETWORK INC — $1,281,708 over 4y, 14% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $1,191,255 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK OF OHIO INC — $1,181,727 over 4y, 72% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY — $1,061,767 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION — $978,365 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWest Ohio Food Bank — $866,312 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $722,673 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS — $606,944 over 4y, 48% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY INC — $316,481 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON-MORGAN COUNTIES OHIO — $273,173 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC — $42,641 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES — $40,143 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetROSS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION — $32,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $17,532 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPICKAWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANCOCK-HARDIN-WYANDOT-PUTNAM COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO — $11,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN CENTER — $11,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY — $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC — $10,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC — $10,148 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY INC — $9,977 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WELL AT SUNNYSIDE — $9,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFISH CHOICE PANTRY — $9,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED NORTH CORPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVETERANS CARE NETWORK — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNEAUT HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF TOLEDO INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMEDICA HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $4,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC — $4,962 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOXFORD TALAWANDA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $4,400 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT — $4,286 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES SERVING PORTAGE AND STARK COUNTIES — $3,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Westfield Insuran…The Kroger Co Foundat…United Way of Central…American Electric Pow…Peoples Bank Foundati…First Lady's Charitab…Encova Foundation of …Feeding AmericaOhio Community Develo…Healthpath Foundation…Foundation for Appala…Columbus Foundation
The Westfield Insurance FoundationOH28.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · First Lady's Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Feeding America · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Columbus 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 Ohio Association of Foodbanks 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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