· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Steel Valley Charities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steel Valley Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steel Valley Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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