· Private foundation
Steel Valley Charities
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIM WOMEN'S CENTER | $150,000 |
| KUGATTA | $20,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $14,100 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| 91FOUR | $5,404 |
| WORLD VISION | $5,352 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,350 |
| HARMONY CHURCH | $3,650 |
| CRU | $3,300 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $3,000 |
| CHILD FUND INTERNATIONAL | $2,723 |
| INTL FLLWSHP CHRISTISTIANS & JEWS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Steel Valley Charities’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- UMURBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +74%
- AWAIM WOMEN'S CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +175% · 26% of their budget
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- SCSYCAMORE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
- CFCENTER FOR GLOBAL IMPACT INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -14%
- RFREFUGE FOR WOMENone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Judy Maple Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 126 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 URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AIM WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KUGATTA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds 91 FOUR ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FRIENDSHIP ROOM ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds RELATIONSHIP BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds A CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD ↗
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: Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Steel Valley Charities 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.