· Private foundation
Sulsberger Foundation
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 $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZANESVILLE BD OF EDUCATION | $47,421 |
| YMCA | $47,421 |
| ZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSN | $31,614 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $31,614 |
| ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $31,614 |
| GSMC FOUNDATION | $31,614 |
| ZANESVILLE CIVIC LEAGUE INC | $15,807 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,807 |
| ALLWELL BEHAVORIAL HEALTH | $15,807 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY BOARD OF | $9,484 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC | $6,323 |
| PIONEER & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,323 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $6,323 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $6,323 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,323 |
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 (FY20–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- ZCZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +40% · 71% of their budget
- LCLicking County Family YMCA5× · 2020–2024 · $264k · revenue +34%
- ABALLWELL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PHPIONEER HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $7k
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 put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all
We are an association of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we are committed to providing quality programs focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. in youth development, we provide enriching…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The winona family ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families and strong…
The hastings family ymca puts christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirits, minds, and bodies for all.
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y mission is also to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development,…
The ywca of gettysburg & adams county is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. the ywca is adams county's center for personal and community growth - a place to learn,…
The ymca of san diego county is a nonprofit with a mission to nurture a healthy spirit, mind, and body so all can thrive while honoring our faith-based heritage.
The iowa credit union league (icul) is the non-profit trade association that represents the interests of iowa's credit unions. icul was established in 1933 and continues to focus on our mission "to strengthen the credit union movement by…
The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum Family Y and the most unlike its peers is Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 ZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE CIVIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLWELL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn
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 Sulsberger 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.