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Foundation for Appalachian Ohio

The FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO (fao) is a regional community foundation serving the 32 counties of appalachian ohio.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$742kArts & Culture$475kCommunity Improvement$459kPublic Safety & Disaster$243kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 68 grants below total $2,026,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,596,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,570,583 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 $10k29 grants · $192k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $518k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $347k
  • $250k+3 grants · $969k
$10,622
Median grant
6
States reached
$128M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSS COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITI$400,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$319,244
HAVAR INC$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLIN$170,012
HAVEN OF HOPE$114,500
ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$62,087
OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER$46,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO$28,537
ADAMS COUNTY TRAVEL AND VISITORS BUREAU$25,000
FUTURE PLANS$22,000
ADAMS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$21,672
STUART'S OPERA HOUSE$21,267
MEADOWBROOK MUSIC BOOSTERS$20,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED$19,591
ATHENS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT$18,191
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL OHIO: $6k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK: $669k → 15%GO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8k → 17%MAHONING YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $13k → 19%GOD'S HANDS AT WORK: $12k → 20%SOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK: $18k → 21%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK: $203k → 15%HELPING APPALACHIAN RURAL PEOPLES: $10k → 16%GOD'S HANDS AT WORK: $6k → 20%CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%HARCATUS TRI-COUNTY CAO: $5k → 12%GOD'S HANDS AT WORK: $6k → 20%SOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK: $11k → 21%CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%HAVEN OF HOPE: $118k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTE OF PIKE COUNTY INC: $8k → 20%SOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK: $11k → 21%HAVAR INC: $250k → 22%DOWNTOWN CHILLICOTHE: $15k → 14%HAVEN OF HOPE: $115k → 15%HELPING APPALACHIAN RURAL PEOPLES: $5k → 16%HAVAR INC: $146k → 22%HAVEN OF HOPE: $110k → 15%HAVEN OF HOPE: $104k → 15%YMCA-JACKSON COUNTY (JACKSON AREA FAMILY ACTIVITIES CENTER): $10k → 18%EASTERSEALS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO: $6k → 15%HAVEN OF HOPE: $95k → 15%HAVEN OF HOPE: $81k → 15%GOD'S HANDS AT WORK: $6k → 20%HAVEN OF HOPE: $54k → 15%OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER: $47k → 15%INTEGRATED SERVICES OF APPALACHIAN OHIO: $20k → 22%OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER: $40k → 15%OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER: $38k → 15%OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER: $36k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Foundation for Appalachian Ohio’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, 65% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Foundation for Appalachian Ohiolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 62 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
190

Total granted

$4.7M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $677k · revenue +48%
  • HI
    HAVAR INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $396k · revenue +32%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER
    4× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • VT
    VISION TO LEARN
    one grant, 2023 · $821k
  • GC
    GUERNSEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $337k
  • VISION TO LEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +88%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies
Food & Nutrition
2
Appalachian Center for Economic Networks Inc

The organization is a community based economic development entity serving the 32 counties of appalachia ohio. its mission is to build the capacity of appalachian communities to network, work together and innovate to create a dynamic…

Community Improvement
3
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
4
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
5
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…

Community Improvement
6
Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies

Provide training to the ohio community action agencies.

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7
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.

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8
Ohio Community Action Training Organization

Training for community action.

Education
9
Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission

To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…

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10
Tuscarawas County Committee On Aging

To provide opportunities to individualsover 50 years of age in tuscarawas county, ohiothrough healthy living, independence, physical andmental health, education, and recreational programs

Human Services
11
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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12
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hockingathensperry Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Brighten Your Future. 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr19%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/209
the rest of the field
13%
4,809/37,296

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.

05the grantee network

148 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. 148 of the 302 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/148
Grantees still filing
88/148
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VISION TO LEARN — $820,756 · OtherVISION TO LEARNPAINT VALLEY ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTIO — $400,000 · OtherPAINT VALLEY ALCOHOL DRUG ADDICTIOGUERNSEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $337,356 · OtherGUERNSEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONROLLING HILLS LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — $296,444 · Other+145 more — $4,065,364 · Other+145 moreFRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK — $872,018 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HI…HAVEN OF HOPE INC — $676,571 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF HOPE INCHAVAR INC — $396,000 · Human ServicesHAVAR INCOPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER — $160,500 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTE…+9 more — $202,233 · Human Services+9 moreFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $319,244 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $170,012 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $34,133 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $25,355 · PhilanthropyFUTURE PLANS INC — $22,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $24,200 · PhilanthropyFIRST BOOK — $185,050 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation — $106,426 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $49,884 · EducationCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationMEADOWBROOK MUSIC BOOSTERS — $20,000 · EducationMALONE UNIVERSITY — $17,882 · Education+1 more — $11,000 · EducationVISION TO LEARN — $150,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $97,000 · HealthAPPALACHIAN CHILDREN COALITION — $31,125 · HealthIMPACT PREVENTION INC — $14,000 · Health+1 more — $9,000 · HealthATHENS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT — $55,038 · Arts & CultureOHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC — $54,781 · Arts & CultureSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $53,471 · Arts & CultureDAIRY BARN SE OHIO CULTURAL ARTS — $36,622 · Arts & CulturePASSION WORKS — $22,838 · Arts & CultureMONROE ARTS COUNCIL — $22,520 · Arts & CultureMOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $20,500 · Arts & CultureFRENCH ART COLONY — $18,931 · Arts & CultureMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $13,000 · Arts & CultureHOCKING HILLS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureRURAL ACTION INC — $88,996 · Community ImprovementADAMS COUNTY TRAVEL AND VISITORS BU — $25,000 · Community ImprovementBUCKEYE HILLS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES — $24,250 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSUNDAY CREEK ASSOCIATES — $18,775 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROJECT INC — $10,491 · Community Improvement
Other$5,919,920Human Services$2,307,322Philanthropy$594,944Education$520,242Health$401,125Arts & Culture$309,701Community Improvement$212,512

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK — $872,018 over 3y, 81% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE INC — $676,571 over 8y, 22% of budgetHAVAR INC — $396,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $319,244 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $185,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $170,012 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER — $160,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY — $114,002 over 2y, 24% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation — $106,426 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $97,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO — $91,037 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRURAL ACTION INC — $88,996 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetATHENS CONSERVANCY — $55,885 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetATHENS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT — $55,038 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetOHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC — $54,781 over 1y, 26% of budgetSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $53,471 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOGAN THEATER INC — $50,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $49,884 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOJOURNERS CARE NETWORK — $40,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMEIGS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $39,041 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDAIRY BARN SE OHIO CULTURAL ARTS — $36,622 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLEWISVILLE COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $36,073 over 1y, 25% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $34,133 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC — $32,480 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CHILDREN COALITION — $31,125 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGOD'S HANDS AT WORK — $28,808 over 5y, 21% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc — $25,495 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $25,355 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGoodwill Industries of South — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADAMS COUNTY TRAVEL AND VISITORS BU — $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES — $24,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Valley Youth Network — $22,846 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetPASSION WORKS — $22,838 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMONROE ARTS COUNCIL — $22,520 over 4y, 13% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $22,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetFUTURE PLANS INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE — $21,268 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $20,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ICHTHYOSIS AND RELATED SKIN TYPES INC — $20,100 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetINTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budget
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 FRIENDS OF THE HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVAR INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
  • Who funds RURAL ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds OHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC ↗
  • Who funds STUARTS OPERA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds LOGAN THEATER 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.

Athens County Foundat…Peoples Bank Foundati…Columbus FoundationSisters of St Joseph …Community Foundations…American Electric Pow…Park National Corpora…Healthpath Foundation…The CareSource Founda…Osteopathic Heritage …J William & Mary Stra…United Way of Central…
Athens County FoundationOH56.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Athens County Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Community Foundations Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · The CareSource Foundation · Osteopathic Heritage Foundation · J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn · United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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 Foundation for Appalachian Ohio 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    52report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Foundation for Appalachian Ohio?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Appalachian Ohio 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 302 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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