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The Hire Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hire Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$312k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$653kArts & Culture$396kFood & Nutrition$387kRecreation & Sports$242kEducation$214kPhilanthropy$165kAnimals$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $297k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THIRD STREET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES$15,000
ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET$15,000
RICHLAND COUNTY AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
THE VISUAL BUCKET LIST$10,000
OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY$10,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER$10,000
ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$10,000
RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $20k → 5%THE GATHERING PLACE: $250 → 17%PRE-BORN: $1k → 16%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $3k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDREN'S AUXILIARY: $800 → 15%PRE-BORN: $1k → 15%MANSFIELD AREA Y: $25k → 15%MANSFIELD AREA Y: $10k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDREN'S AUXILIARY: $800 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
TN
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
42

Total granted

$2.2M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +31%
  • AH
    ASPEN HOPE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +420%
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $164k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +35%
  • RC
    RICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -41%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY ASHLAND KROC CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
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
2
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
3
Muskingum Valley Health Center

To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.

Health
4
Rural Health Care Inc

To provide comprehensive primary health care and preventative health services to underserved communities. to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
5
Fordland Clinic Inc

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.

Health
6
Richland Medical Center D/B/a Central Ozarks Medical Center

Dedicated to providing the highest quality medical services within our power to provide to the people of camden, pulaski, laclede, and miller counties

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7
Redlands Community Hospital

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.

Health
8
Ashland Symphony Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Dfd Russell Medical Center Inc

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.

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10
Richfield Foundation

To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.

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11
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
12
Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richland County Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 91 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATALYST LIFE SERVICES: $168,506 · OtherCATALYST LIFE SERVICESNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $164,233 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONKINGWOOD CENTER GARDENS: $135,880 · OtherKINGWOOD CENTER GARDENSRICHLAND COUNTY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $95,736 · OtherRICHLAND COUNTY AMERICAN RED CROSSHOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $64,216 · OtherASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $64,000 · Other+64 more: $715,673 · Other+64 moreASPEN HOPE CENTER: $185,000 · HealthASPEN HOPE CENT…ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $133,720 · HealthASCENDIGO AUTIS…HELPHOPELIVE INC: $50,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE IN…+2 more: $10,250 · HealthASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: $110,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN SAN…Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc: $55,000 · Arts & CultureMansfield…NORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CEN…COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS …RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $13,900 · Arts & Culture+2 moreCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $225,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'…FLYING HORSE FARMS: $212,100 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,250 · Recreation & SportsRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC: $127,478 · Crime & LegalALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,408,244Health$378,970Arts & Culture$235,900Food & Nutrition$225,000Recreation & Sports$214,350Philanthropy$154,000Crime & Legal$132,478

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $225,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $212,100 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER: $185,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $164,233 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $133,720 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC: $127,478 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: $110,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $64,216 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE INC: $35,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $32,953 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNEOS DANCE THEATRE: $16,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThird Street Community Clinic: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND REGIONAL BALLET INC: $14,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMISSION TO AMISH PEOPLE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $11,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFAITH LIFE CHURCH: $10,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S CUP: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $6,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN LAB RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS AUXILIARY: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $250 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.

  • 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 NORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER ↗
  • Who funds NEOS DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE RICHLAND COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND REGIONAL BALLET INC ↗

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.

Richland County Found…The Robert and Esther…Ashland County Commun…Park National Corpora…Edith B & Joseph E Hu…The Milton R & Beulah…Richard & Arline Land…Aspen Community Found…The Milliron Foundati…Gorman Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Ford S N & Ada Fund P…
Richland County FoundationOH36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hire Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hire Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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