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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mahoning Valley and Western Pennsylvania
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities is to help youth in the mahoning valley and western pennsylvania by assisting with funding to health and educational programs that positively impact youth up to the age of 21 years.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $4,053,872 |
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND MAHONING VALLEY | $250,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| LINKS INC (YOUNGSTOWN CHAPTER) | $60,000 |
| CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP | $50,000 |
| SMARTS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY | $15,000 |
| PRO FOOTBALL HOF | $14,000 |
| CAMP FITCH | $10,000 |
| EBONY LADIES GOLF AND YOUTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAIRHAVEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITY HEALTH DISTRICT | $9,000 |
| URSULINE SISTERS | $8,229 |
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 (FY19–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $790k · revenue +46%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY3× · 2017–2020 · $307k · revenue +88%
- NFNATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $26k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWNgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +71%
- AAAfrican American Wellness Projectgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +27%
- TATRUMBULL ART GALLERYone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -32%
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.
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To operate for charitable purposes that exclusively benefit or carry out the charitable, educational and/or economic development purposes of the youngstown/warren regional chamber.
The mission of the Orrville YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley and the most unlike its peers is Fairhaven Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LINKS INC YOUNGSTOWN OH CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUNGSTOWN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds African American Wellness Project ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · Western Reserve Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Firstenergy Foundation · James & Coralie Centofanti Charitable Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Neckerman William M Jr Charitable
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 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mahoning Valley and Western Pennsylvania 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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