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Ohio County Community Foundation Inc
The foundation was organized to provide responsible stewardship of donated gifts to provide leadership in addressing community issues and to make grants in the fields of community service, education, health, environment and the arts in the ohio county area.
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.
The 10 grants below total $852,936 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,112,948 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $260,012 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
- $250k+1 grant · $729k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF RISING SUN | $729,150 |
| RISING SUNOHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOL COPORATION | $32,443 |
| OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,743 |
| RSOC SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING INC | $13,000 |
| OHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,675 |
| RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,326 |
| ST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OHIO COUNTY TOURISM INC | $9,799 |
| RISING SUN CHURCH OF CHRIST INC | $9,100 |
| OHIO COUNTY | $7,700 |
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RSRISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC5× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +94%
- RSRISING SUN MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +53%
- LVLAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 1462× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- NONoah Obanion Post 59 Incone grant, 2018 · $84k · revenue +38% · 31% of their budget
- OCOHIO COUNTY RESCUE SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE DEARBORN OHIO AND SWITZERLone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN
Volunteer fire department
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
Volunteer fire department providing fire and emergency services to the community of flushing and surrounding areas.
None
To provide fire and emergency services to community
Volunteer fire company
All activities for the organization are engaged in for the benefit and welfare of the retired police officers, firefighters, and their families.
Volunteer Firefighters. The Dept provides fire protection, rescue, emergency medical services, and mutual and automatic aid to other organizations requesting assistance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio County Tourism Inc and the most unlike its peers is People Helping People Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 Noah Obanion Post 59 Inc ↗
- Who funds RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds RISING SUN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RISING SUN & OHIO COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY TOURISM INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY RESCUE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 146 ↗
- Who funds RISING SUN MAIN STREET INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ohio County Community 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.
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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