· Public charity
South Central Power Company Foundation
To accumulate and disburse funds for charitable purposes in the service territory and surrounding communities of South Central Power Company.
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 27 grants below total $231,094 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $551,804 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $320,710 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 $10k18 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONDAY CREEK TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| EXPLORE PICKAWAY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEAYS VALLEY CHOIR BOOSTER | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER FAIRFIELD PUBLIC TRANSIT | $10,000 |
| BELMONT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CONCORD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| HOOPS FOR THE HEART VFD | $10,000 |
| HARRISON COUNTY TOURISM | $10,000 |
| GENEVA HILLS GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| ST CLAIRSVILLE VOCAL MUSIC BOOSTER | $9,969 |
| BOWERSTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,876 |
| PERRY COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY | $9,600 |
| FAIRFIELD UNION LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $9,000 |
| LAURELVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,733 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE | $8,700 |
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 (FY18–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 19 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- HCHarrison County Tourism Council Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue ×15
- HHHOCKING HILLS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +26%
- FVFLUSHING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT2× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MSMAIN STREET CIRCLEVILLEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SCST CLAIRSVILLE AREA SOCCER ASSOCIA TIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +33%
- JCJUNCTION CITY PTOone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
To provide fire protection and emergency rescue service for ballville township and surrounding areas.
Fire protection.
The organization's purpose is to provide volunteer fire fighting services.
None
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Community fire protection
Fire department
Volunteer fire department
Volunteer fire department for the village of payne ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laurelville Volunteer Firemens Association and the most unlike its peers is Fairfield Agriculture Boosters. 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 145 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 Harrison County Tourism Council Inc ↗
- Who funds PICKAWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKING HILLS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDTOWN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FLUSHING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHINE ON CHILLICOTHE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT & DEERCREEK EMERGENCY ↗
- Who funds BARTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CONCORD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Ohio Extension Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO LIVING FREE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON CO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Freeport Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds Adena Music and Performing Arts Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds Crossed Paws Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds ADENA PRIMARY PTO ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIRSVILLE AREA SOCCER ASSOCIA TION ↗
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: Fairfield County Foundation · Community Foundations Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Columbus Foundation · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Adena Health System · Park National Corporation Foundation · United Way of Ross County Inc · David Meade Massie Trust · Peoples Bank Foundation · Share Our Strength · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
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 South Central Power Company 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.