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The Ashtabula Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$916k
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$777kPhilanthropy$463kRecreation & Sports$358kReligion$262kCommunity Improvement$241kArts & Culture$237kOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $321k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMC$75,650
SAINT JOHN SCHOOL$75,000
UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY$70,000
ASHTABULA COUNTY YMCA$50,174
ACDL FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$48,370
JEFFERSON AREA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$35,000
CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$31,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GENEVA$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
YOUTH ENRICHMENT FUND$28,264
AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY$26,630
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY$22,480
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$21,185
ASHTABULA HOMELESS SHELTER INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%CADENCE CARE NETWORK: $300 → 16%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%H2O MISSIONS INC: $3k → 17%H2O MISSIONS: $808 → 17%H2O MISSIONS INC: $600 → 17%H2O MISSIONS INC: $500 → 17%COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $26k → 17%COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $11k → 17%COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $11k → 17%COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $10k → 17%COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $10k → 17%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $2k → 17%GENEVA AREA SENIOR CORPORATION: $4k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $17k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $14k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $11k → 17%MYA WOMEN'S CENTER: $8k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $6k → 17%MYA WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 17%ASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 17%MYA WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 17%MYA WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 17%MYA WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $750 → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $600 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 97 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

97 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
85

Total granted

$4.4M
$883k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+9%

Still filing today

35%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $268k · revenue +166%
  • AS
    AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +83%
  • AA
    ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • KR
    KSU RESEARCH CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $143k
  • AT
    ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP PARK COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $130k
  • CC
    CONNEAUT CHURCH OF GOD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $67k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ashtabula County Council On Aging Inc

Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…

Human Services
2
Ashtabula County Medical Center

Ashtabula county medical center provides quality healthcare to positively impact the health of our community.

Health
3
Appleseed Community Mental Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide the most professional, courteous and quality mental health care services to the ashland county community.

Human Services
4
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
5
Ashtabula County Animal Protective League

To operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
6
Ashtabula County Day Care Center Inc

To provide high-quality child care to infants and children.

Human Services
7
Community Assessment & Treatment Services Inc

Cats strives to grow as an organization committed to our mission to deliver highly professional, state of the art chemical dependency and behavioral health services to the under-served and under-represented. cats will be known for…

Health
8
Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency On Aging

Direction home akron canton area agency on aging & disabilities provides older adults, people with disabilities and their caregivers long-term care choices and consumer protection so they can achieve the highest quality of life.

Human Services
9
Judson Care Center Inc

Judson care center's mission, as a charitable, christian organization, is to use its resources to meet the housing, health care, social, physical and spiritual needs of its constituents without regards to race, color, creed, national…

Health
10
The Healthcare Connection Inc

To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.

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11
Ashtabula County Continued Education Support Services

To provide ashtabula county children and parents a greater awareness of the opportunity for higher education and to assist families with discovering and obtaining the financial resources necessary to reach the goal of a higher education.

Education
12
Civic Development Corporation of Ashtabula County

The civic development corporation of ashtabula county improves the quality of life in our community by surveying its stakeholders, developing strategic objectives, identifying impactful projects, raising funds, and providing oversight for…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maddox & Friends Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 208 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
34/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEARCY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $282,031 · OtherSEARCY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FUNDASHTABULA COUNTY YMCA: $272,107 · OtherASHTABULA COUNTY YMCACIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $267,034 · OtherCIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONACMC: $247,097 · OtherACMCIndividual grant recipient: $184,500 · OtherST JOHN SCHOOL: $158,000 · OtherARMC: $145,771 · OtherKSU RESEARCH CORP: $142,850 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY: $136,699 · Other+154 more: $2,133,630 · Other+154 moreUNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY: $460,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+1 more: $2,417 · PhilanthropyASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $268,000 · HealthASHTABULA…HOMESAFE INC: $75,050 · HealthHOMESAFE …CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $40,600 · HealthCLEVELAND…LAKE AREA RECOVERY CENTER INC: $15,250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · Health+6 more: $30,480 · Health+6 moreCOUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $68,075 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $49,975 · Human ServicesMYA WOMENS CENTER INC: $19,979 · Human ServicesASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $16,315 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,350 · Human Services+5 more: $17,040 · Human ServicesAFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC: $92,032 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $57,993 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP: $21,924 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationASHTABULA ARTS CENTER: $91,405 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $600 · Arts & CultureGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT MKC: $3,200 · Youth DevelopmentCONNEAUT YOUTH CENTER INC: $1,425 · Youth Development+3 more: $1,625 · Youth Development
Other$3,969,719Philanthropy$462,917Health$444,380Human Services$186,734Education$174,949Arts & Culture$107,005Youth Development$26,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY: $460,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $268,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY: $136,699 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC: $92,032 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetASHTABULA ARTS CENTER: $91,405 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHOMESAFE INC: $75,050 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCOUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC: $68,075 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $65,607 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $57,993 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES IN PHILADELPHIA: $50,628 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $49,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $40,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP: $21,924 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetZONTA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $20,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMYA WOMENS CENTER INC: $19,979 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGRAND RIVER ACADEMY: $17,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASHTABULA DREAM CENTER: $17,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $16,315 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE AREA RECOVERY CENTER INC: $15,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIGNATURE HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHCRAFT INDUSTRIES INC: $8,621 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSPIDERWEB INC: $8,062 over 4y, 14% of budgetASHTABULA LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $7,800 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetLIFEACT: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMADDOX & FRIENDS CAT RESCUE: $7,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASHTABULA DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetOak Hill Collaborative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Improvement Corporation of Geneva: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPARK PLACE NON-PROFIT CENTER CO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKOINONIA DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $4,980 over 1y, 14% of budgetH2O MISSIONS INC: $4,908 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetHENDERSON MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,150 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGeneva Area Senior Corporation: $3,832 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPROJECT MKC: $3,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAITH ACADEMY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE HARVEST FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONNEAUT HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEFFERSON YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONNEAUT YOUTH CENTER INC: $1,425 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOMESAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES IN PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗

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.

Robert S Morrison FoundationOH59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert S Morrison Foundation · The Androse Foundation · The Conneaut Foundation Inc · United Way of Ashtabula County · The Business of Good Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ford Albert M Charitable Tw · The Mfg Foundation Co

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ashtabula Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ashtabula Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ashtabula Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Ashtabula Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 208 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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