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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
297
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.6MEducation$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.9MArts & Culture$1.8MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$1.0MHousing & Shelter$828kYouth Development$766kOther$0
02FY2025 · 297 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k201 grants · $822k
  • $10k–50k87 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $872k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $13k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $13k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $6k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 10%HARCUM HOUSE: $15k → 9%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 10%YMCA OF DARKE COUNTY: $8k → 11%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $18k → 10%YMCA OF MOUNT VERNON: $50k → 12%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $13k → 10%YMCA OF MOUNT VERNON: $50k → 12%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $13k → 10%YMCA OF DARKE COUNTY: $6k → 11%YMCA OF DARKE COUNTY: $6k → 11%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $15k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $15k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $8k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $15k → 10%LICKING COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 10%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%LOOK UP MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%ST VINCENT HAVEN: $50k → 15%ST VINCENT HAVEN: $25k → 10%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 10%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $17k → 10%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $8k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $35k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $35k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $26k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $19k → 15%ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $6k → 15%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 15%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
IN
OH
PA
KY
WV
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 281 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

281
142

Total granted

$12M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $353k · revenue +56%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $187k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $135k · revenue -14%
  • NC
    NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
    one grant, 2021 · $126k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK ATTN SARAH WALLACE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
Butler County United Way

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…

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4
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
6
Columbus Area United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Henry County

To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area

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8
United Way of Wilkes County Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

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.

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10
Orrville United Way Inc

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…

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11
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
United Way of Cumberland County Inc

Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

316 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
311/316
Grantees still filing
173/316
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LICKING COUNTY UNITED WAY: $730,909 · OtherLICKING COUNTY UNITED WAYMIDLAND THEATRE: $480,130 · OtherMIDLAND THEATRENEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ATTN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $406,500 · OtherNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ATTN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR+116 more: $5,381,346 · Other+116 moreLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · PhilanthropyLICKING COUNTY …UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $258,867 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF C…UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC: $188,504 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF M…UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $147,978 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF F…UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC: $135,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF L…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $117,397 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of G…UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $94,523 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $78,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $62,366 · Philanthropy+12 more: $401,921 · Philanthropy+12 moreNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS: $1,140,000 · Community ImprovementNEWARK DEVE…NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH END C…GROW LICKING COUNTY: $71,250 · Community ImprovementGROW LICKIN…+2 more: $47,364 · Community ImprovementMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $155,000 · EducationMUSKINGUM…Mount Vernon Nazarene University: $145,000 · EducationMount Ver…KENYON COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationKENYON CO…ZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationZANE STAT…DENISON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationDENISON U…CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $80,500 · EducationCLASSROOM…HOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · EducationHOCKING C…Granville Athletic Boosters: $50,000 · EducationGRANVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationNORTHRIDGE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS OF LICKING COUNTY OHIO INC: $50,000 · EducationCLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,750 · EducationHealing Vine Harbor: $40,000 · Education+6 more: $141,925 · Education+6 moreST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $150,336 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $110,000 · Human ServicesLicking County Family YMCA: $104,125 · Human ServicesMiami County YMCA: $100,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC: $78,750 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry: $65,000 · Human ServicesSupportive Housing Communities Inc: $50,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc: $47,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $43,125 · Human Services+7 more: $181,500 · Human ServicesTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY: $352,814 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC: $121,875 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $61,875 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS LTD: $50,000 · Arts & CultureZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $46,000 · Arts & CultureNEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION: $37,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MAINSTREET PIQUA INC: $30,375 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $115,425 · Arts & CultureMuskingum Valley Health Center: $156,250 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO: $95,250 · HealthLICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,450 · HealthHEALTHY NEW ALBANY INC: $43,750 · HealthBEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $28,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · Health
Other$6,998,885Philanthropy$1,855,306Community Improvement$1,333,614Education$1,157,175Human Services$980,836Arts & Culture$910,864Health$389,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS: $1,140,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY: $352,814 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $258,867 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC: $188,504 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC: $187,234 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $169,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMuskingum Valley Health Center: $156,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $150,336 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $147,978 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC: $135,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC: $121,875 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $117,397 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $110,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLicking County Family YMCA: $104,125 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD INDEPENDENT FAIR: $103,662 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMiami County YMCA: $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO: $95,250 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $94,523 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $80,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC: $78,750 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $78,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $77,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetKNOX NEW HOPE INDUSTRIES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY OHIO: $74,523 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE THOMAS J EVANS FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGROW LICKING COUNTY: $71,250 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $70,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $66,455 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARFORK ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB: $65,547 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $62,366 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $61,875 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $56,495 over 5y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO ↗
  • Who funds ZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD INDEPENDENT FAIR ↗
  • Who funds Miami County YMCA ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Park National Bank Em…Licking County Founda…Energy Cooperative Ro…United Way of Central…Licking Memorial Heal…American Electric Pow…The Lindorf Family Fo…Columbus FoundationFirst Federal Foundat…Peoples Bank Foundati…The John and Mary Alf…Harry C Moores Founda…
Park National Bank Employees' Community Service FundOH111.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Park National Corporation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Park National Corporation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    79report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Park National Corporation Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Park National Corporation Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 501 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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