· Private foundation
The Ashtabula Rotary Foundation
- THE OBJECT OF ROTARY IS TO ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER THE IDEAL OF SERVICE AS A BASIS OF WORTHY ENTERPRISE.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALO | $1,019 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
| KINGSVILLE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| LEADERSHIP ASHTABULA COUNTY INC | $1,000 |
| CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $920 |
| INTERACT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| HUBBARD HOUSE | $250 |
| DISASTER AID USA | $250 |
| DISASTER AID USA | $250 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
| BEATITUDE HOUSE | $88 |
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 (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Ashtabula Rotary Foundation’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, 77% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 71% — 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 +26% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL4× · 2022–2025 · $9k
- ALASHTABULA LIBRARY2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
- KLKINGSVILLE LIBRARY4× · 2022–2025 · $4k
Funded once
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $7k
- AMASHTABULA MARITIME & SURFACE TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
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 operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.
To achieve economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all of ashtabula county.
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,…
To support the restoration of the ashtabula river, and to own and operate the former coast guard station located on the east bank of the ashtabula river ("station"). with respect to the station, the foundation will preserve and develop the…
To provide high-quality child care to infants and children.
Provide emergency shelter and meals, case management and assessment to homeless individuals and families from the ashtabula county and surrounding areas.
A multi-service agency serving ashtabula county, devoted to helping meet basic human needs. its concentration is on poverty reduction, strengthening families, proclaiming life and building community. most of those served were at or below…
United way of ashtabula county serves as a responsible steward of donated resources to impact the critical needs of our community in the areas of health, education and financial stability.
Serve disabled and disadvantaged adults seeking to develop job and interpersonal skills necessary to compete in the working world.
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.
Provide a safe, friendly place for the spiritual, physical and mental development of youth and adults
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashtabula County Family Ymca and the most unlike its peers is The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. 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 27 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 ASHTABULA MARITIME & SURFACE TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ASHTABULA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DISASTER AID USA INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Robert S Morrison Foundation · The Business of Good Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 The Ashtabula Rotary 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.
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