How much did RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION reported 93 grants totaling $8,398,810 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION based?

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION is based in OH.

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION

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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.

$8.4M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.2M

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$12MCommunity Improvement$7.9MHuman Services$3.4MEducation$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.1MHousing & Shelter$961kOther$20M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

crcreadinggenealogical informationmalabar farmlouis bromfieldthird streetstudy

2019

girlspatientsgovernmentmansfield educationalroofhospiceplayground

2020

adacovidyoungteacherfallspark districtclear fork

2021

emergencyakrongovernmentpeter'smedicaladvocacytesting

2022

upgradescapital improvementsoutreachvisualvenueincompetentguardian

2023

sclerodermavenueoutreachreliefincompetentguardianvisual

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $201k
$10k–50k36 grants · $729k
$50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
$250k+6 grants · $3.9M

$15,500

Median grant

States reached

$228M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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 5% 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.

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$49M · 126 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

126 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126

Total granted

$49M

$725k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+32%

Still filing today

68%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $547k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

TL
THE LITTLE BUCKEYE CHILDREN'S MUSEU
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +134% · 70% of their budget
YO
YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +93%
KC
KINGWOOD CENTER GARDENS
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +389%

Funded once

RA
RICHLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $118k · revenue +119%
CO
CITY OF SHELBY PARK BOARD
one grant, 2017 · $117k
RC
RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2017 · $112k

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

04Your field

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 Historical Society

Identify, authenticate, collect, preserve, and interpret ohio's history.

Arts & Culture

Ohio Living Communities

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

Human Services

Ohio Glass Museum

Arts & Culture

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio's

To help at-risk students and out of school participants complete their education and successfully transition to employment at a livable wage or post-secondary job training.

Employment

Ohio County&Independent Agricultural Soc

Conducts delaware county fair which includes providing and maintaining facilities to support junior & senior fair competitions, horse races, amusement rides and all other facilities needed for this nature of program

Food & Nutrition

Granville Ohio Historical Society

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.

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Ohio Museums Association Inc

The mission of the ohio museums association is to connect, educate, empower, and advocates for the ohio museum community.

—

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Our vision: to explore, engage, and empower for a better tomorrow.

Arts & Culture

OhioHealth Corporation

Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.

Health

Southern Ohio Medical Center

Southern ohio medical center is an acute health care system located in portsmouth, ohio. somc's exempt purpose is to serve south central ohio and northeastern kentucky with state-of-the-art facilities and health care technologies.

Health

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…

Arts & Culture

Nami of Richland County Ohio

Our mission is to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with mental illness, and to support their families.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Richland County and the most unlike its peers is Fenimore Art Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/172

the rest of the field

11%

2,193/20,528

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.

06the grantee network

120 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

116/120

Grantees still filing

88/120

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$22,987,076Arts & Culture$12,209,942Community Improvement$7,880,556Human Services$3,398,010Education$1,569,688Philanthropy$1,430,747Health$1,225,416

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.

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.

The Robert and Esther Black Family FoundationPA52.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · United Way of Richland County · Ashland County Community Foundation · Shelby Ohio Community Foundation Of · The Milton R & Beulah M Young · The Hire Family Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Ronald McDonald House Charities Of · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · United Fund of Shelby Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TAKING ROOT FARMS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~168 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 25.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464030652 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TAKING ROOT FARMS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 168 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Richland County Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richland County Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

120 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richland County Foundation?

More from the funding graph

RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

120 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richland County Foundation?

More from the funding graph