· Community foundation
The Lima Community Foundation
To promote philanthropy, and provide stewardship and leadership to enhance the use of community resources to meet the needs of Lima's residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $249,761 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $302,239 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,478 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Humane Society of Allen Count | $41,457 |
| Lima Rescue Mission | $41,457 |
| Market Street Presbyterian Ch | $41,457 |
| Salvation Army of Lima | $41,457 |
| The Ohio State University | $21,600 |
| Ohio Northern University | $17,379 |
| Freytag and Associates Inc | $13,038 |
| Rhodes State University | $12,558 |
| Allen County Land Bank | $7,000 |
| Bowling Green State Universit | $6,870 |
| Optimist International Founda | $5,488 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -2% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $70k
- CCCOLE COLLECTION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $47k
- JAJames A Rhodes State College Foundation3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue -37%
Funded once
- LCLimaAllen County VMCCC Foundationone grant, 2019 · $632k · revenue -67% · 75% of their budget
- JHJohn H Keller Fundone grant, 2020 · $40k
- VMVeterans Memorial Civic and Cone grant, 2022 · $36k
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.
Allen University is an academic community which provides students an opportunity to obtain baccalaureate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs in traditional and distance education formats. The University has a…
Alma College's mission is to prepare graduates who think critically, serve generously, lead purposefully and live responsibly as stewards
To promote philanthropy, and provide stewardship and leadership to enhance the use of community resources to meet the needs of Lima's residents.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The College is a liberal arts institution committed to fostering academic excellence and to provide high educational opportunities for a diverse population with disparate levels of academic preparation.
Oacc is dedicated to the advancement and implementation of sound policy and initiatives that work to ensure the success of the more than 300,000 community college students in ohio. rooted in the belief that every person should have access…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association-Lima and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Allen County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 LimaAllen County VMCCC Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ALLEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIMA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds James A Rhodes State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-LIMA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Lima Inc ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Lima Community 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.
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