· Private foundation
The Mfg Foundation Co
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE MFG FOUNDATION CO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MFG NC HURRICANE RELIEF FUND OF THE US EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $27,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRIDGE TO MOBILITY | $25,000 |
| CITY OF INDEPENDENCE KANSAS FIRE AND EMS | $20,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY | $15,000 |
| CONNEAUT POLICE K-9 FUND | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $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 (FY18–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 53% of The Mfg Foundation Co’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, 71% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +177%- ACASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $72k · revenue +132%
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ACASHTABULA COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- NSNORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…
A multi-service agency serving ashtabula county, devoted to helping meet basic human needs. its concentration is on poverty reduction, strengthening families, proclaiming life and building community. most of those served were at or below…
To achieve economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all of ashtabula county.
Provide emergency shelter and meals, case management and assessment to homeless individuals and families from the ashtabula county and surrounding areas.
Establish, maintain, operate, and support, either directly, or in cooperation with other organizations, home care, home health care, home maintenance, hospice, and other services for older adults.
Services to the elderly
To provide ashtabula county children and parents a greater awareness of the opportunity for higher education and to assist families with discovering and obtaining the financial resources necessary to reach the goal of a higher education.
Public transportation services to the general public including the elderly and disabled population
Securing charitable support to enhance the lives of persons served by asbury communities, inc. and its supported organizations.
Our mission is exploring possibilities to live your best life by doing all the good we can with integrity, transparency and grace.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
United way of ashtabula county serves as a responsible steward of donated resources to impact the critical needs of our community in the areas of health, education and financial stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashtabula County Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Delivering and Servicing the Homebo. 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 27 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 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 69 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 KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE ASHTABULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO MOBILITY ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CITY PRIDE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING AND SERVICING THE HOMEBO ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO OTHERS ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CARING INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
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: Robert S Morrison Foundation · The Business of Good Foundation · The Ashtabula Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mfg Foundation Co 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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