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The Herbert C Ziegler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$461k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARK LIBRARY$10,000
PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN$10,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
AKRON CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$7,500
REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES$7,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASSILLON$7,500
C CLEMENTS$6,000
K HAMILTON$6,000
M OHLER$6,000
J BARCLAY$6,000
M CARUSO$6,000
G ROBINSON$6,000
L GERDES$6,000
B OHLER$6,000
S EDWARDS$6,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMQUEST SERVICES: $6k → 13%EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 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 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
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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2
Summit Classical Christian School

Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…

Education
3
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
5
Emerge Ministries Inc

To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…

Human Services
6
Kid in the Corner

Youth suicide awareness and prevention

Health
7
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
8
Voices of Tomorrow

To provide culturally responsive, child-focused programs that support the growth, learning, and well-being of children and families. To strengthen community-based systems by empowering providers to deliver equitable........

Youth Development
9
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
10
Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc

To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.

Human Services
11
South Central Ohio Big Brothers Big Sisters Association

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
12
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commquest Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pathway Caring for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLSTARK LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherSTARK LIBRARYC CLEMENTS: $6,000 · OtherG ROBINSON: $6,000 · OtherV SEYMOUR: $6,000 · OtherA PRYSE: $6,000 · OtherJ BARCLAY: $6,000 · OtherM CARUSO: $6,000 · OtherK HAMILTON: $6,000 · OtherS CLEMENTS: $6,000 · OtherM OHLER: $6,000 · OtherB OHLER: $6,000 · OtherL GERDES: $6,000 · OtherS EDWARDS: $6,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc: $5,000 · Other+17 more: $51,000 · Other+17 moreBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTOMTOD IDEAS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthSTARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 · EducationHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $7,500 · ReligionAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $7,500 · Food & NutritionEN-RICH-MENT: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$148,000Youth Development$12,500Human Services$10,500Health$10,000Education$8,000Religion$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEN-RICH-MENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds EN-RICH-MENT ↗
  • Who funds TOMTOD IDEAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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