· Private foundation
The Hire Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $36,790 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $35,000 |
| FLYING HORSE FARMS | $30,000 |
| MANSFIELD AREA Y | $25,000 |
| ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES | $20,000 |
| NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET | $15,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| THIRD STREET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES | $15,000 |
| THE VISUAL BUCKET LIST | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER | $10,000 |
| ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +31%
- AHASPEN HOPE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +420%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $164k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +35%
- RCRICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -41%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -73%
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 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…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
To provide comprehensive primary health care and preventative health services to underserved communities. to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.
Dedicated to providing the highest quality medical services within our power to provide to the people of camden, pulaski, laclede, and miller counties
Our mission is to promote an environment where members of our community can receive high quality care and services so they can maintain and be restored to good health.
The ashland symphony orchestra aspires to become a leading arts organization in north central ohio known for high quality, affordable performances and community outreach programs that impact audiences from ashland county and beyond.
The mission of dfd russell medical center is to ensure that everyone in our communities have access to, and are provided with, the highest quality primary health care, regardless of ability to pay.
To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The adaptive sports center enriches the lives of people with disabilities and other specific needs through exceptional outdoor adventures. the successful programs the asc provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richland County Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Richland Early American Center for History. 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 91 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 CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER ↗
- Who funds NEOS DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE RICHLAND COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND REGIONAL BALLET 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: Richland County Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Gorman Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ford S N & Ada Fund Pfdn
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 Hire Family Foundation 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.