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Park National Corporation Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k201 grants · $822k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $872k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $200,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY UNITED WAY | $153,786 |
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $125,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARION COUNTY | $100,000 |
| MIDLAND THEATRE | $77,163 |
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION ATTN MIKE SCHMIDT | $65,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO | $51,478 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE WORKS | $43,291 |
| ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE | $35,000 |
| MIDLAND THEATRE | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY & MORGAN COUNTIES | $30,699 |
| UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $30,303 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +15% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
281 repeat relationships — 209 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k 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
- TWTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY5× · 2021–2025 · $353k · revenue +56%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $187k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $135k · revenue -14%
- NCNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTORone grant, 2021 · $126k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK ATTN SARAH WALLACEone grant, 2024 · $100k
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 strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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.
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
The columbus area united way focuses resources to improve individual lives and help build a stronger community by providing leadership, creating coalitions, and helping to develop resources to change community conditions.
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
The orrville united way improves lives by unitiing people and resources to advance the common good in orrville, dalton and marshallville in eastern wayne county ohio. our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent future problems…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Abbot Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
316 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. 316 of the 501 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds Muskingum Valley Health Center ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds ZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INDEPENDENT FAIR ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Miami County YMCA ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund · Licking County Foundation Inc · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Lindorf Family Foundation · Columbus Foundation · First Federal Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · Harry C Moores 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 Park National Corporation 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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