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The Belden Brick Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Belden Brick Charitable Trust

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2018
70
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

27
’17
40
’18
23
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$2.2MEducation$65kRecreation & Sports$47kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$21kReligion$11kHealth$11kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2018 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k68 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Pro Football Hall of Fame$5,000
House of Loreto$5,000
Heartbeats of the City Inc$5,000
The First Tee of Canton$3,500
Refuge of Hope Ministries$3,500
United Way of Tuscarawas County Inc$3,000
Invent Now$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%St John's Villa: $500 → 12%St John's Villa: $500 → 12%YMCA of Central Stark County: $3k → 13%Early Childhood Resource Center: $1k → 13%Early Childhood Resource Center: $1k → 13%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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 36 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
45

Total granted

$111k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+152%

Still filing today

75%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WU
    Walsh University Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +3%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +33%
  • RO
    REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • KF
    KSU Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • PF
    Pro Football Hall Of Fame - Canton Ohio
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AC
    Aquinas College Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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…

Philanthropy
3
Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
5
The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education
6
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Bucks County

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.

Philanthropy
8
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

—
9
Oucu Financial Credit Union Fka Ohio University Credit Union

Provide financial services to its members.

—
10
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
11
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
12
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 121 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
40/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,158,765 · PhilanthropySTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+3 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyPro Football Hall of Fame: $17,500 · OtherUnited Way of Stark County: $14,500 · OtherThe Aultman Foundation: $10,000 · OtherCommQuest: $8,000 · OtherKSU Foundation: $8,000 · OtherCultural Center for the Arts: $6,000 · Other+84 more: $103,068 · OtherGARAWAY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $17,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $14,000 · EducationWalsh University Inc: $12,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Education+8 more: $9,250 · EducationARTS IN STARK: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSTARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCanton Preservation Society: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of Fort Laurens Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureYMCA of Central Stark County: $3,334 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $2,250 · Human ServicesHealing Hands Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesST JOHN'S VILLA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 · HealthPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Philanthropy$2,182,265Other$167,068Education$60,250Arts & Culture$14,000Human Services$7,584Recreation & Sports$7,000Health$5,100

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 budgetSTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,158,765 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGARAWAY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $17,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWalsh University Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetARTS IN STARK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO: $3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYMCA of Central Stark County: $3,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Canton Student Loan Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $2,668 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanton Preservation Society: $1,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhispering Grace Horses: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Fort Laurens Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHammer & Nails Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST JOHN'S VILLA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Rebuild Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STARK & WAYNE COUNTIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStark County District Library Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKEYE CAREER CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER CLEVELAND AND EAST CENTRAL OHIO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO NATURAL ENERGY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTUSCARAWAS COUNTY UNIV FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 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.

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.

Stark Community Found…Hoover Foundation Inc…Timken Foundation of …Timken Co Charitable …Sisters of Charity Fo…Albert W & Edith V Fl…Fred F Silk Charitabl…North Canton Medical …Henry & Louise Timken…The Paul and Carol Da…Austin-Bailey Health …Ada C Rank & Helen J …
Stark Community FoundationOH70.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Belden Brick Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Belden Brick Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Belden Brick Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Belden Brick Charitable Trust 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 121 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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