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Sandusky County Communities Foundation Inc
The mission of the sandusky county communities foundation is to enhance the well-being of the people and communities of sandusky county by managing permanent investments for philanthropic goals.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of SANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC’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.
The 20 grants below total $579,657 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $703,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,325 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 $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $250,000 |
| IMENTOR CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CITY OF FREMONT | $28,505 |
| NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $26,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY S | $15,000 |
| SANDUSKY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIET | $14,022 |
| BISHOP HOFFMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $12,300 |
| CAMP FIRE SANDUSKY COUNTY | $10,300 |
| LINDSEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,530 |
| SANDUSKY TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,512 |
| LIBERTY CENTER OF SANDUSKY COUNTY | $9,150 |
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 (FY21–23, $433k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 13 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k 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
- GLGREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP2× · 2021–2023 · $433k · revenue +11%
- RBRUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS3× · 2020–2022 · $81k · revenue +19%
- SCSandusky County Agricultural Society2× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INCone grant, 2022 · $250k
- SBSARA BARBOUR MEM SCHOLAR FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
- NCNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
Seeking to put God's love into action,
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.
Support of the Stark County District Library
Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.
The sandusky state theatre was originally created in 1928 and was reinvented several times since its inception. the arts, particularly the performing arts, are a reflection and a documentation of our culture and society. therefore, in…
To serve the charitable and scientific purposes of Five Rivers MetroParks.
To improve the region's quality of life and economic competitiveness in order to position it as the greatest destination on the great lakes to live, work, and invest.
To enrich the quality of life for individuals and families of wyandot county, ohio.
Operation of a volunteer fire dept
All funds are expended for the purpose of operating a free public library under the laws of the State of Ohio.
To provide fire & rescue services to those in need.
To serve the residents of franklin township and surroundings in any capacity we are trained and have equipment to provide, including protection against loss of life and property.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandusky County Communities Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library and Museums. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sandusky County Agricultural Society ↗
- Who funds PONTIFEX INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Fire Sandusky County ↗
- Who funds Sandco Industries ↗
- Who funds Fremont Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds Liberty Center of Sandusky County ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READ TO THEM INC ↗
- Who funds BALLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Stemtown Historical Society ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Knight-Baldwin Charitable Fund Inc · Sandusky County Share and Care Center · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sandusky County Communities Foundation Inc 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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