· Private foundation
Robert S Morrison Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $487k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHTABULA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY NE OHIO REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY | $49,736 |
| ASHCRAFT INDUSTRIES INC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| JEFFERSON AREA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY | $37,500 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAUGE | $36,000 |
| ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER | $30,000 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ASHTABULA HOMELESS SHELTER INC | $22,000 |
| CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BEATITUDE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $12,000 |
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k 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
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +677% · 57% of their budget
- ASAFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +70%
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE4× · 2022–2025 · $169k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- STSAYBROOK TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $40k
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY TECHNICAL & CAREER CAMPUSone grant, 2022 · $39k
- ACASHTABULA CNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LGone grant, 2021 · $37k
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.
Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…
To provide high-quality child care to infants and children.
To provide ashtabula county children and parents a greater awareness of the opportunity for higher education and to assist families with discovering and obtaining the financial resources necessary to reach the goal of a higher education.
The preservation, display and interpretation of great lakes harbors, maritime, coast guard and rail history as it relates to the northeast ohio in the form of a musuem.
Ashtabula county medical center provides quality healthcare to positively impact the health of our community.
Provide a safe, friendly place for the spiritual, physical and mental development of youth and adults
To preserve the history of ashland county, ohio, and to provide educational opportunities to read about and experience said history and heritage.
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
A multi-service agency serving ashtabula county, devoted to helping meet basic human needs. its concentration is on poverty reduction, strengthening families, proclaiming life and building community. most of those served were at or below…
To support the restoration of the ashtabula river, and to own and operate the former coast guard station located on the east bank of the ashtabula river ("station"). with respect to the station, the foundation will preserve and develop the…
To provide short-term emergency financial assistance to the people in ashland county in the way of utilities, shelter, medication, pre-approved doctor and dental visits, and gasoline vouchers to doctor appointments out of town.
Coordinates realtor activities and provides continuing education for agents
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Faith Academy. 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 44 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 138 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 ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA HOMELESS SHELTERINC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER FND ENDW ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASHCRAFT INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ASHTABULA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER ↗
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 Ashtabula Foundation Inc · The Business of Good Foundation · The Androse Foundation · United Way of Ashtabula County · The Mfg Foundation Co · Firstenergy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ford Albert M Charitable Tw · The Herzog Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Ashtabula Rotary 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 Robert S Morrison 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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