· Public charity
Southern Ohio Medical Center
At somc, our mission is to make a difference.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $154,045 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $218,090 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,045 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF PORTSMOUTH | $50,045 |
| MARKET STREET SQUARE PARK | $50,000 |
| SHAWNEE STATE DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| SUMMER MOTION | $9,500 |
| PORTSMOUTH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $8,000 |
| CIRQUE D'ART THEATRE | $8,000 |
| MAIN STREET PORTSMOUTH | $6,500 |
| STEVEN HUNTER HOPE FUND | $6,000 |
| TIME OUT FOR ME | $6,000 |
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, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +46%
- SOSOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +4%
- PRPORTSMOUTH RIVER DAYS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +27% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SCScioto County Childrens Museum Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -62%
- SOSOUTHERN OHIO PORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SDSOMC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +79%
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.
to foster community involvement through the arts
Public museum
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
Engaging the community through music by operating a non-profit symphony orchestra and related activities
Promotion of and betterment of the community
The museum tells the story of the Voice of America in conjunction with the history of radio and television in southwestern Ohio as well as the history of radio technology in general
To develop jobs & economic development for the jackson co ohio area
The mission of the sodi community reuse organization is to improve the quality of life in pike, scioto, ross, and jackson counties through economic diversification, development of underutilized land and facilities on the portsmouth dept of…
To support local county fair
Organize and promote tourism.
Arts education, including instruction, programs and performance
Preserve history
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somc Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Market Square Park Llc. 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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 36 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 Friends of Southern Ohio ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Scioto County Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH RIVER DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Shawnee State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OHIO COMMUNITY CONCERT ASS DBA SOUTHERN OHIO PERFORMING ARTS A ↗
- Who funds Market Square Park LLC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTSMOUTH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds STEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET PORTSMOUTH ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIOTO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOMC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF SCIOTO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIOTO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Stem Academy ↗
- Who funds 14TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: The Scioto County Area Foundation · The Glockner Family Foundation Inc · Richard D Marting Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · 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 Southern Ohio Medical Center 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.