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The Muskingum County Community Foundation
The mission of muskingum county community foundation (mccf) is to improve quality of life in the community by nurturing opportunities and serving needs through collaboration and philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $948,928 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,565,269 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,616,341 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 $10k14 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $120,867 |
| TRANSITIONS INC | $65,170 |
| GENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $56,852 |
| WEST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRIC | $52,611 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $49,449 |
| EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY | $39,695 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $36,517 |
| ZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $36,261 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $34,167 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $27,550 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY HUNGER NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| CHRIST'S TABLE | $24,500 |
| ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $21,316 |
| ZANESVILLE-MUSKINGUM CO CHAMBER OF | $20,470 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER SOCIETY INC | $20,466 |
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, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% 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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
- MRMUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $4.7M · revenue +926% · 38% of their budget
- GHGENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM6× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +83%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- WMWEST MUSKINGUM HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $864k
- EMEAST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $160k
- ZAZANESVILLE APPALACHIAN ARTS PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $109k
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.
Dedicated to supporting the mission of the muskingum watershed conservancy district by providing financial resources that enhance facilities, programs, and conservation efforts on or adjacent to district lands and waters.
The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.
The mission of muskingum county community foundation (mccf) is to improve quality of life in the community by nurturing opportunities and serving needs through collaboration and philanthropy.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
Provide financial services to its members.
To provide a place for youth and residences of muskingum county to display, sell and buy agricultural products produced within muskingum county. to provide live entertainment and a social gathering for the residents of the county.
The lodge unites its members in the bonds of fraternity, benevolence and charity. this is accomplished thru a year-round schedule of social and recreational activities for members
The upper bucks ymca, quakertown, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, has been serving the unique needs of the children, families and individuals in the quakertown, pennridge and palisades school districts in upper bucks county since 1968.…
Museum
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
To be the heart of the buckeye alumni community, inspiring and cultivating engaged citizens. through time and change, we enrich firm friendships among buckeye alumni of the ohio state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum Family Y and the most unlike its peers is Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 64% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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 100 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 MUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM COUNTY HUNGER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Animal Shelter Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds EAST MUSKINGUM STUDENT ENDOWMENT FU ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds National Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CARR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds MISSIONARY MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE MUSKINGUM COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
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: J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn · Robert E Fellers and Leona L Fellers Foundation Trust · Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · Rogge Cora E Memorial Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Adams Family Foundation · Littick Arline Clay Charitable Trust · The Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Muskingum Perry and Morgan Counties Inc
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 Muskingum County 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.