· Private foundation
Richard & Arline Landers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOX COUNTY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CENTERBURG MEMORIAL PARK | $33,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF MT VERNON | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND ACAMDEMY OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDREN'S AUXILIAR | $10,000 |
| 4-H CAMP OHIO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,850 |
| NCSC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THE FREEDOM CENTER | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JBJACKET BOOSTERS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +69%
- OBOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +3%
- MYMID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- KCKNOX COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTALone grant, 2019 · $66k
- CCROSSROADone grant, 2017 · $50k
- KCKNOX COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2018 · $34k
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.
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.
To promote the common good and general welfare of ohioans.
To develop jobs & economic development for the jackson co ohio area
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.
The Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra provides exceptional musical education through a variety of performance opportunities for young musicians of all backgrounds in an inclusive community of learning and growth.
Industrial developement for meigs county, ohio
To stabilize or increase property values in areas of Franklin County suffering from the effects of blighted, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed or economically-stranded properties and to promote and facilitate rehabilitation, reutilization…
Our mission is to support and grow the ecosystem of non-profit, non-partisan organizations doing year-round civic engagement with underrepresented communities in order to improve people's lives.
Protecting natural areas in Ohio through conservation easements and public education regarding the importance of natural areas.
Training for community action.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 88 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JACKET BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Foundation ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OWL CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds MTVARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Knox County Foundation · Richland County Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · The Ariel Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard & Arline Landers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Arline Landers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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