· Public charity
Samaritan Hospital Foundation
The foundation's mission is to provide financial support to samaritan regional health system to provide health and wellness initiatives to the ashland county community.
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 24 grants below total $4,742,285 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,940,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,437 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $384k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM | $4,042,512 |
| ASHLAND ACCESS | $96,200 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION | $81,500 |
| CITY OF ASHLAND DIVISION OF FIRE | $78,344 |
| ASHLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $67,500 |
| ASHLAND FAMILY YMCA | $60,000 |
| ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY | $42,204 |
| ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $38,405 |
| ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $32,000 |
| FIRELANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE | $23,901 |
| CITY OF ASHLAND | $21,500 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS | $21,000 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY MH AND RECOVERY BOAR | $20,000 |
| FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRY | $16,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $13,600 |
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, $729k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC7× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +181%
- ACASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +204% · 29% of their budget
- ACASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $199k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- FCFOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -89%
- PPROJECTONEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +102%
- LPLOUDONVILLE PERRYSVILLE BOOSTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +149%
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.
Services to the elderly
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Local faith groups, in alliance with the community at large, will provide emergency food supplies, without charge, t0 individuals and families in the ashland/talent area who would otherwise go hungry and will also endeavor to increase…
Providing services to the elderly
Substance abuse counseling and education
To improve the quality of life in the ashland area, through, but not limited to the promotion, encouragement and support of education, health and well-being of families & individuals, preservation of nature, history, and the promotion of…
To make contributions which are used to support the social and economic impact in the local community.
To preserve the history of ashland county, ohio, and to provide educational opportunities to read about and experience said history and heritage.
To provide facilities programs, and leadership that will emphasize development in the area's of spirit, mind, and body in a christian environment that is available for the entire community.
Assisting ashland county residents in need of secure, safe, affordable housing through rentals, renovations, and/or new homes.
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 offer meals on a daily basis to those in need of food
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Loudonville Perrysville Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHURCH COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SILENT WATCH VETERAN SUICIDE AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND PARENTING PLUS ↗
- Who funds PROJECTONE ↗
- Who funds LOUDONVILLE PERRYSVILLE BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND FAITH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GROW IN HOPE MIINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION OF THE LOUDONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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: Ashland County Community Foundation · The Norma Foundation · United Way of Ashland County · Hugo H & Mabel B Young Foundation · Barbasol Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Samaritan Hospital 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.
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