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Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund

The organization collects contributions from fellow employees to fund united way agencies or other 501(c)(3) organizations in the communities in which we operate or our employees live.

$457k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of PARK NATIONAL BANK EMPLOYEES' COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$1,030
Median grant
13
States reached
$486k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LICKING COUNTY UNITED WAY$153,786
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO$51,478
UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES$30,699
UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$30,303
UNITES WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN AND MADISON COUNTIES$22,099
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$17,248
UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC$15,320
UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY$13,480
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOME COUNTY$13,142
UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY$12,204
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY$11,437
UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON$9,501
UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT$8,749
UNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY$7,820
UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY$7,723
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT: $11k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOME COUNTY: $13k → 12%UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $17k → 5%UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $32k → 9%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY: $14k → 10%UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY: $9k → 11%UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC: $22k → 12%UNITED WAY OF VARIOUS COUNTIES IN OHIO: $190k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $10k → 14%UNITES WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN AND MADISON COUNTIES: $26k → 15%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO: $55k → 15%UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $20k → 15%UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT: $10k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOME COUNTY: $12k → 12%UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $15k → 5%UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY: $13k → 10%UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY: $9k → 11%UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC: $19k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES: $39k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $10k → 14%UNITES WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN AND MADISON COUNTIES: $24k → 15%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO: $51k → 15%UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $16k → 15%UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT: $10k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND & BUNCOME COUNTY: $12k → 12%UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $11k → 5%UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY: $12k → 10%UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY: $8k → 11%UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC: $19k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES: $35k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $10k → 14%UNITES WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN AND MADISON COUNTIES: $24k → 15%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO: $49k → 15%UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $15k → 15%UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT: $9k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON & BUNCOME COUNTY: $10k → 12%UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $11k → 5%UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $29k → 9%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY: $12k → 10%UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC: $15k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES: $34k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $10k → 14%UNITES WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN AND MADISON COUNTIES: $22k → 15%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO: $46k → 15%UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $13k → 15%UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES: $31k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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KY
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OK
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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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 63 repeat orgs$223k 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 -3% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
15

Total granted

$2.4M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-3%

Still filing today

86%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +41%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +33%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $64k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF VARIOUS COUNTIES IN OHIO
    one grant, 2021 · $190k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ASHLAND & BUNCOME COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON & BUNCOME COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Etowah County Inc

United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.

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3
United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry

The mission of united way greater union county is to improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals and organizations with the will, passion, expertise, and resources needed to solve problems.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy
6
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
7
Greater Ottawa County United Way

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community to advance the common good. greater ottawa county united way supports, develops, and implements a range of impact solutions that improve lives and creates stronger communities.

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8
United Way of Calhoun County

The mission of the united way of calhoun county is to help increase the organized capacity of people in calhoun county to care for one another.

Philanthropy
9
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties

United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…

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11
United Way of Lapeer County

To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Union County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United Way of Hocking County. 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 65 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr20%76%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%0%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr20%88%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,237

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
27/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LICKING COUNTY UNITED WAY — $1,164,533 · OtherLICKING COUNTY UNITED WAYUNITED WAY OF VARIOUS COUNTIES IN OHIO — $189,798 · OtherUNITED WAY OF VARIOUS COUNTIES IN OHIOUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC — $75,582 · Other+31 more — $293,799 · Other+31 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $201,026 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INCUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC — $138,776 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORG…UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY — $121,698 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTYTHE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC — $95,390 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MA…United Way of Greater Cincinnati — $87,694 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater CincinnatiUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY — $63,764 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTYUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY — $54,130 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTYUNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY — $33,145 · Philanthropy+41 more — $107,799 · Philanthropy+41 more
Other$1,723,712Philanthropy$903,422

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $201,026 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC — $138,776 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY — $121,698 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC — $95,390 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $87,694 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC — $75,582 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY — $63,764 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY — $54,130 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY OHIO — $51,335 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHLAND COUNTY — $33,145 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC — $25,986 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC — $25,293 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO — $22,880 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $14,323 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY INC — $12,299 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY — $10,352 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $10,319 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY — $7,914 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC — $6,756 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHenderson County United Way Inc — $6,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY — $5,467 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of York County SC — $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC — $4,096 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO — $3,706 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC — $2,976 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC — $2,873 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROSS COUNTY INC — $2,174 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $2,170 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $2,060 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way of Hocking County — $1,939 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $1,887 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC — $1,813 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $1,770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC — $1,691 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BOONE COUNTY IL — $1,646 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PICKAWAY COUNTY — $1,352 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc — $1,331 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY — $1,113 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY — $1,040 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLINTON COUNTY — $980 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $976 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $918 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $846 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $629 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $530 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Park National Corpora…United Way WorldwideLumen Clarke M Willia…Firstenergy FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…AT&T FoundationTr Ua Fifth Third Fou…Truist Foundation IncUnited Way of Central…Publix Super Markets …The Westfield Insuran…The United Way of Sou…
Park National Corporation FoundationOH111.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Park National Corporation Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania

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 Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
  • United Way Emerald Coast — 9% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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: 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund?

Find your warmest path to Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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