· Public charity
Ohio & Erie Canal Association
To Preserve and support the Historic Ohio & Erie Canal
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 $206,457 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $210,708 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,251 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition | $56,500 |
| Canalway Partners | $38,000 |
| Historic Warehouse District | $30,000 |
| Akron History Center | $26,250 |
| City of New Franklin | $11,200 |
| City of Cleveland | $10,000 |
| Tuscarawus County Parks | $10,000 |
| Zoar community Assn | $10,000 |
| Lakeview Cemetary Fdn | $7,500 |
| Stark Parks | $7,007 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- OEOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +433%
- NCNorth Cuyahoga Valley Corridor Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +91%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- DFDEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +206%
- COCITY OF AKRONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- COCITY OF MASSILLONone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
Land conservation and restoration for public benefit
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
Non profit historical society
Cascade locks park association is a 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 1989. our mission is to preserve, protect, and promote the industrial and cultural heritage of the mustill family store & home and the cascade locks park along locks…
The carousel society serves to restore the 1910 grand euclid beach carousel to be a functional, self-sustaining regional historic and cultural landmark for enjoyment and programmatic community development through its placement in the…
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Local ballot issue political action committee located in the state of Ohio
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Museum
River fields protects, preserves, and enhances the natural and cultural resources, including agricultural and scenic resources, on both sides of the ohio river between westport and west point, kentucky, for the benefit of the public.we…
The mission of the clark county historical society is to collect, preerve, and interpret resources which provide understanding and appreciation of clark county's heritage, and to relate to the community's past to the present and its future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Foundation Inc. 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 40 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds North Cuyahoga Valley Corridor Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds TREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Akron History Center ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT ECOLOGY 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: The Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Ohio Humanities Council · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · Mg O'Neil Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial
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 & Erie Canal Association 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.