· Private foundation
Richard & Arline Landers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of RICHARD & ARLINE LANDERS FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF MT VERNON | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| 4-H CAMP OHIO | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDREN'S AUXILIAR | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND ACAMDEMY OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,850 |
| NCSC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| PELOTONIA | $5,000 |
| TAKING ROOTS FARM | $5,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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
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
- 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
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring and the most unlike its peers is Mansfield Community Playhouse Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 88 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Richard & Arline Landers 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.