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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$729k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.4MEducation$657kPublic Benefit$382kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHealth$60kReligion$44kHousing & Shelter$23kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $852,936, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,112,948 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $260,012 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $250k+1 grant · $729k
$10,675
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC: $5k → 11%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 15 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$2.6M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+10%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RS
    RISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +94%
  • RS
    RISING SUN MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +53%
  • LV
    LAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 146
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • NO
    Noah Obanion Post 59 Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $84k · revenue +38% · 31% of their budget
  • OC
    OHIO COUNTY RESCUE SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE DEARBORN OHIO AND SWITZERL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Raleigh Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN

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2
Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department of Starke County Indiana

Volunteer fire department

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3
Romney Volunteer Fire Company

Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies
Food & Nutrition
5
Graysville & Community Vol Fire Dept

Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community

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6
Flushing Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department providing fire and emergency services to the community of flushing and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Harman Volunteer Fire Department Inc

None

—
8
Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Co

To provide fire and emergency services to community

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Rome Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection to rome township lawrence county ohio

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Ohio Operation Lifesaver
—
11
Police & Fire Retirees of Ohio Inc

All activities for the organization are engaged in for the benefit and welfare of the retired police officers, firefighters, and their families.

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12
Ohio Township Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Volunteer fire protection services

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio County Tourism Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF RISING SUN: $1,439,150 · OtherCITY OF RISING SUNRISING SUN-OHIO CNTY SCHOOLS: $612,458 · OtherRISING SUN-OHIO CNTY SCHOOLSCITY OF RISING SUN CITY COUNCIL: $230,000 · OtherCITY OF RISING SUN CITY COUNCIL+15 more: $302,492 · Other+15 moreNoah Obanion Post 59 Inc: $83,990 · Public BenefitOHIO COUNTY TOURISM INC: $19,799 · Public BenefitRISING SUN & OHIO COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING INC: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $10,000 · HealthRISING SUN MAIN STREET INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,584,100Public Benefit$103,789Housing & Shelter$23,000Human Services$10,000Health$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNoah Obanion Post 59 Inc: $83,990 over 1y, 31% of budgetRISING SUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $50,370 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetRISING SUN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRISING SUN & OHIO COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOHIO COUNTY TOURISM INC: $19,799 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,675 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOHIO COUNTY RESCUE SERVICES INC: $10,024 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 146: $10,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISING SUN MAIN STREET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds LAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 146 ↗
  • Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds RISING SUN MAIN STREET INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ohio County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ohio County Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio County Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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