· Private foundation
Robert E Fellers and Leona L Fellers Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 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: 75% of ROBERT E FELLERS AND LEONA L FELLERS FOUNDATION TRUST’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENESIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHRIVERS HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHEAST | $10,000 |
| TOGETHER WE GROW | $7,501 |
| PERRY YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL | $7,500 |
| ROSEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $7,000 |
| MUSKINGUM CO BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTAL | $7,000 |
| THORN TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,016 |
| ZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GUERNSEY HEALTH CHOICES INC | $5,000 |
| BUCKEYE LAKE YACHT CLUB | $5,000 |
| LICKING COUNTY COALITION OF CARE | $5,000 |
| ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| LVIS VENTURE YOUTH TO YOUTH | $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 (FY19–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- TCTHE CARR CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +20%
- TWTOGETHER WE GROW INC5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +3%
- TAThe Animal Shelter Society Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- LTLIGHT THE HILL (WEST MUSKINGUM SCHOone grant, 2018 · $13k
- TVTRI VALLEY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.
To provide a place for youth and residences of muskingum county to display, sell and buy agricultural products produced within muskingum county. to provide live entertainment and a social gathering for the residents of the county.
To provide recreation in our community
Dedicated to supporting the mission of the muskingum watershed conservancy district by providing financial resources that enhance facilities, programs, and conservation efforts on or adjacent to district lands and waters.
To assist senior citizens in several ways including but not limited to providing activites such as line dancing, bingo, card games, bus trips, and ceramic classes. also provide senior citizens assistance with utility, medical, or various…
Aiding and promoting new and existing businesses in zanesville and muskingum county
Baseball programs for youth and all citizens.
Helping foster and conserve the natural resources, land, air and water of the environment and doing all other things compatible with charitable, educational, literary and scientific endeavors relating directly or indirectly to parks and…
Rescue and adoption of animals
To support uncared for animals in ohio county, kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum County Center for Seniors and the most unlike its peers is East Muskingum Student Endowment Fu. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 23% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 106 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 THE CARR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE GROW INC ↗
- Who funds The Animal Shelter Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE LAKE YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MUSKINGUM STUDENT ENDOWMENT FU ↗
- Who funds Licking County TNR Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLER HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GUERNSEY HEALTH CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WEST MUSKINGUM YOUTH LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY ↗
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 Muskingum County Community Foundation · J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn · Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund · Rogge Cora E Memorial Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Licking County Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Adams Family Foundation · Cecil Mauger Charitable Trust · First Federal Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Robert E Fellers and Leona L Fellers Foundation Trust 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.
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