How much did PARK FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of PARK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

starlinnicholasalexanderrinemariahdutielchloe

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$679k

Total assets

Largest grants

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$3,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
OHIO UNIVERSITY$2,000
ZANE STATE COLLEGE$2,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 89% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$143k · 21 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$143k

$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%

-6%

Still filing today

19%

16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEmploymentOther

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

OU
OHIO UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2025 · $34k
OS
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
3× · 2020–2022 · $14k
HC
HOCKING COLLEGE
3× · 2021–2023 · $11k

Funded once

TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -37%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +33%
MK
MICHAEL KREITZ
one grant, 2018 · $2k

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.

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Ohio Wesleyan University

Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.

Education

Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education

Union College

Union college is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the united methodist church

Education

Union College

Offer a college experience including education, housing, & associated programs in lincoln, ne.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

The University of Findlay

The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.

Education

Oberlin College

Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…

Education

Ohio Dominican University

As a Catholic liberal arts university in the Dominican tradition, Ohio Dominican University is guided in its educational mission by the Dominican motto: to contemplate truth and to share with others the fruits of this contemplation. Ohio…

Education

The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.

Education

Huntington University

Huntington university is a christ centered institution that exists to carry out the mission of christ in higher education through a curriculum of academic excellence.

Education

Augsburg University

A private lutheran four-year university located in downtown minneapolis.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum University and the most unlike its peers is University of Mount Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

5/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$140,633Education$37,891Employment$10,941

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Berry Marie D Fd H Pfdn · Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · The Ohio Foundation Of · Council of Independent Colleges · Community Foundations Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Anna Marie & Russel Waldron Scholarship Fund

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 organisation PARK 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341809863 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Park Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Park Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PARK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Park Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PARK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Park Foundation?

More from the funding graph