· Private foundation
The Belden Brick Charitable Trust
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of The Belden Brick Charitable Trust’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Stark Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Belden Brick Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $140k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k68 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Stark County | $14,500 |
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $14,000 |
| Garaway Athletic Booster | $9,000 |
| Kent State University Foundation | $8,000 |
| Garaway Athletic Booster | $8,000 |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges | $7,000 |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges | $7,000 |
| Cultural Center for the Arts | $6,000 |
| Heartbeats of the City Inc | $5,000 |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame | $5,000 |
| House of Loreto | $5,000 |
| Refuge of Hope Ministries | $3,500 |
| The First Tee of Canton | $3,500 |
| United Way of Tuscarawas County Inc | $3,000 |
| Invent Now | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- WUWalsh University Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +3%
- UWUNITED WAY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +33%
- ROREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- KFKSU Foundationone grant, 2017 · $8k
- ACAquinas College Fundone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PFPro Football Hall Of Fame - Canton Ohioone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Provide financial services to its members.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hands Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 121 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 STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARAWAY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fore Stark County Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds The Canton Student Loan Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · North Canton Medical Foundation · Henry & Louise Timken Foundation · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable
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 Belden Brick Charitable Trust 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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