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Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char at a glance

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Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$331kReligion$280kEducation$167kArts & Culture$154kHuman Services$143kCommunity Improvement$140kYouth Development$123kHealth$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FED$50,000
CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM$30,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN$24,545
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAHONING VALLEY$23,000
AKIVA ACADEMY$20,000
URSULINE SISTERS MISSION$10,000
OPERA WESTERN RESERVE$7,000
YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH$5,000
PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO$5,000
SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP$4,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 12%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 12%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SER: $15k → 19%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SER: $10k → 19%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SER: $10k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SER: $8k → 19%HOMES FOR KIDS OF OHIO INC: $3k → 16%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%HOMES FOR KIDS OF OHIO INC: $2k → 16%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%PAISLEY HOUSE: $14k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 38 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$1.3M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+46%

Still filing today

68%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN
    7× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +67%
  • YN
    YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +482%
  • CF
    COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALTSHULER AKIVA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • PH
    PAISLEY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +90%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc

To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.

Human Services
2
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
3
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

The united way of youngstown and the mahoning valley seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.

Philanthropy
4
Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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5
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
6
South Central Ohio Big Brothers Big Sisters Association

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
7
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
8
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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9
Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring

To insure that all children living in the organization's service area will have the opportunity to experience positive mentoring relationships.

Youth Development
10
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Associated Neighborhood Centers

Serve the Youngstown area community with social, health, financial, strategic life advice, physical education and well-being services in addition to providing housing advice, food for the needy, program activities, and cultural activities.…

Community Improvement
12
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal Welfare League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FED: $316,593 · OtherYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDCONGREGATION OHEV BETH SHOLOM: $170,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OHEV BETH SHOLOMCOMMUNITY INC: $58,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INCOH WOW THE ROGER AND GLORIA JONES: $51,277 · OtherB'NAI B'RITH MAHONING LODGE 339: $50,000 · Other+39 more: $393,986 · Other+39 moreCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $102,981 · ReligionHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $4,014 · ReligionOPERA Western Reserve Inc: $51,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE: $7,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTERN RESERVE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $25,000 · Human ServicesPAISLEY HOUSE: $14,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesCADENCE CARE NETWORK: $4,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,040 · Human ServicesYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,829 · Housing & ShelterCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $29,941 · HealthSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC: $9,500 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY: $33,500 · International
Other$1,039,856Religion$106,995Arts & Culture$101,000Human Services$97,540Housing & Shelter$60,829Health$44,441International$33,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $102,981 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,829 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOPERA Western Reserve Inc: $51,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH MAHONING LODGE 339: $50,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY: $33,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $29,941 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN: $29,545 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $24,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetInspiring Minds: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE SISTERS MISSION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAISLEY HOUSE: $14,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ENGLISH CENTER: $13,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetHUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC: $12,584 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC: $9,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET WESTERN RESERVE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCADENCE CARE NETWORK: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $4,014 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOak Hill Collaborative Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $2,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH MAHONING LODGE 339 ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Autism Society of Mahoning Valley ↗
  • Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds URSULINE SISTERS MISSION ↗
  • Who funds PAISLEY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds SISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Walter E & Caroline H…Ruth Beecher H XI Cha…Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Frances Schermer Char…Fibushendricks Family…Trust Uw David Tod Ar…The William Swanston …The Raymond John Wean…W&H Bender Memorial F…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH63.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Trust Uw David Tod Arrel · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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