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Osgood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| MARY RUTAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY FOUNDATION | $8,333 |
| THE MED FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CELINA-MERCER COUNTY COMBINED SERVICES APPEAL INC | $2,500 |
| LAKE LORAMIE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| LOGAN COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,650 |
| FORT LORAMIE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MERCER COUNTY CIVIC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,053 |
| FORT LORAMIE SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| WAYNE HOSPITAL COMPANY | $1,000 |
| NEW CHOICES INC | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MRMARY RUTAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
- TMTHE MED FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $11k
- FLFORT LORAMIE EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- MMCDOone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OROSGOOD RECREATION ASSOCAITIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- MLMARION LOCAL FLYERS ATHLETICone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +24%
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.
To support local county fair
Conduct the annual county fair
Organize and promote tourism.
To support local county fair
Operation of museum
Ambulance commission
The goal is to promote all types of agriculture in the county and surrounding areas during the year and finalizing with the seven day fair.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
Community arts council
Conduct annual county fair
To conduct the ohio county 4-h fair and auction.
Venue for agricultural displays
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby County Agricultural Society and the most unlike its peers is Kinder Korner Preschool 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 28 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 56 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 DARKE COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MARION LOCAL FLYERS ATHLETIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY CIVIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICKASAW COMMUNITY PARK ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINDER KORNER PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY MISSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW FIREMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAFY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CELINA-MERCER COUNTY COMBINED SERVICES APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAV YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LAKE LORAMIE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds THE MINSTER CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF SHELBY COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds VERSAILLES COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wayne Hospital Company ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Shelby County · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Troy Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Osgood Foundation 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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