· Community foundation
Richland County Foundation
The mission of the RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION is to improve the quality of life in richland county through strategic philanthropy and community leadership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 93 grants below total $7,109,458 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,398,810 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,289,352 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $729k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MANSFIELD | $1,207,462 |
| NECIC INC | $926,604 |
| RENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS | $680,424 |
| YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $518,574 |
| MANSFIELD LEASED HOUSING | $300,000 |
| BUCKEYE COUNCIL BSA INC | $281,910 |
| TAKING ROOT FARMS | $246,866 |
| RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS INC | $231,835 |
| MANSFIELD ART CENTER | $217,823 |
| MANSFIELD CITY SCHOOLS | $191,895 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $126,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - MANSFIE | $95,063 |
| UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY | $89,401 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $87,049 |
| OHIO DISTRICT 5 AREA AGENCY ON AGIN | $86,332 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Richland County Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 16 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $547k 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
- RPRENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +32% · 45% of their budget
- BIBUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +203% · 70% of their budget
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +93%
Funded once
- OCOhio County & Independent Richland Countygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $118k · revenue +66%
- COCITY OF SHELBY PARK BOARDone grant, 2017 · $117k
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $112k
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.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…
Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.
OHAC's mission is to foster and promote affordable housing in the state of Ohio through:1) education and training of its members and general public; 2) exchange of information; 3) mutual support; 4) collaborate efforts.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The mission of the richland county foundation is to improve the quality of life in richland county through strategic philanthropy and community leadership. grants are distributed for charitable purposes in the areas of community and…
The wilds is a conservation center and safari park operating as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization on nearly 10,000-acres in southeastern ohio. the wilds specializes in high-quality recreational opportunities that focus on connecting…
Supporting the work of and advocating on behalf of all county land reutilization corporations, commonly known as land banks, across ohio. with 61 of ohios 88 counties having land banks, a clear need has emerged for a statewide association…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring and the most unlike its peers is Charles K King No 3 Trust Co Keybank National Association. 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 38 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 179 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 NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES K KING NO 3 TRUST CO KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDERS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE RICHLAND COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds RAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO ↗
- Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Idea Works Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRAPSHOOTING HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MANSFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds LUCAS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Memorial Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD LEASED HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
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: The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · United Way of Richland County · The Hire Family Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · Gorman Family Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Shelby Ohio Community Foundation of Richland County · Ford S N & Ada Fund Pfdn · Park National Corporation 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 Richland County 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.