· Community foundation
The Community Foundation for Crawford County
Bridging philanthropy with causes that improve crawford county's quality of life
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $571,913 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $848,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $276,234 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH C HECKERT CHARITABLE END | $73,387 |
| CRAWFORD PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUC & ECO | $50,301 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUND | $47,052 |
| BUCYRUS KIWANIS CLUB | $37,630 |
| GALION COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATI | $32,764 |
| BUCYRUS LITTLE THEATRE | $30,789 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,287 |
| COLONEL CRAWFORD EAGLES STRONG | $29,940 |
| BUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM LLC | $22,157 |
| COLONEL CRAWFORD SCHOOL ENDOWMENT F | $17,170 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS EAST CENTRAL OHI | $17,016 |
| MURALS ENDOWMENT FUND | $16,172 |
| VARIOUS | $15,785 |
| PROJECTS INC | $15,692 |
| INSURANCE FUND | $13,912 |
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 (FY17–24, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- NCNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +34%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN INC3× · 2020–2023 · $149k · revenue +13%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- CCCRAWFORD COUNTY CARES ACT NONPROFITone grant, 2020 · $400k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $67k
- GCGALION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GRANTone grant, 2022 · $54k
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 provide quality community health care and improve the quality of health in families throughout their lifespan.
Provide rugby teams to the city of cleveland.
To provide education and skills to individuals through workforce development programs
Facilitate youth events
Provide income for tourism and museum
Fire and emergency response to granville twp.
To facilitate acquistition of real property to be dedicated to use as a public park in the city of bucyrus, ohio.
Training in christian principles. wholesome recreation and good fellowship
Public library service
To provide a place for youth and residences of muskingum county to display, sell and buy agricultural products produced within muskingum county. to provide live entertainment and a social gathering for the residents of the county.
Childrens sports
Provide non commercial radio
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Counseling Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oakwood Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 86 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 CRAWFORD COUNTY EDUCATION-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD WORKS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM LLC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CRAWFORD PARK DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Galion Community Center - YMCA ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Bucyrus ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS OUTREACH RESTORATION NETWOR ↗
- Who funds GALION HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of North Central Ohio Inc · John Q Shunk Association · Hessenauer W R Char Trust Pfdn · Timken Foundation of Canton · Richland County Foundation · Boyd Ralph E Foundation Succ-Ta · Galion Community Foundation · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Freese Arthur J Fdn Tw · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation · Ashland County Community 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 Community Foundation for Crawford County 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.