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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$121k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$5.7MEducation$1.1MHealth$790kReligion$606kHuman Services$380kCommunity Improvement$227kArts & Culture$224kCrime & Legal$207kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $948,928, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,565,269 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,616,341 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $296k
$13,590
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 10%BUCKEYE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $6k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%FOREVERDADS: $18k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE LLC: $15k → 14%MUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $12k → 14%HOMELESS HANDS OF ZANESVILLE LLC: $6k → 14%FOREVERDADS: $6k → 14%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 47 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
41

Total granted

$8.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-2%

Still filing today

64%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • MR
    MUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4.7M · revenue +926% · 38% of their budget
  • GH
    GENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +83%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • WM
    WEST MUSKINGUM HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $864k
  • EM
    EAST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $160k
  • ZA
    ZANESVILLE APPALACHIAN ARTS PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $109k
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
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
2
Muskingum County Arts Council

The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.

Community Improvement
3
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.

Philanthropy
4
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies Muskingum Co

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Muskingum Valley Health Center

To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.

Health
6
Vision Usa - the Ohio Vision Project Inc
Health
7
Canfield Heritage Foundation

Museum

Arts & Culture
8
Oucu Financial Credit Union Fka Ohio University Credit Union

Provide financial services to its members.

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9
Meigs United Methodist Cooperative

Empower the Pomeroy community

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10
Ohio State Moose Assoc

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

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11
Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…

Arts & Culture
12
Upper Bucks Young Men's Christian Association

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum Family Y; 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.
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 100 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/52
Grantees still filing
27/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER: $4,738,950 · Recreation & SportsMUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTERWEST MUSKINGUM HIGH SCHOOL: $863,915 · OtherWEST MUSKINGUM HIGH SCHOOLGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $234,913 · OtherGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHEASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $204,983 · OtherEAST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $160,000 · OtherCHRISTS TABLE: $152,699 · Other+72 more: $2,286,460 · Other+72 moreZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $263,129 · EducationZANE STAT…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $231,706 · EducationUNIVERSIT…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $229,904 · EducationOHIO STAT…CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $28,535 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,550 · Education+2 more: $41,350 · EducationGENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $237,069 · HealthBreaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $20,000 · HealthThe Animal Shelter Society Inc: $108,601 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $59,914 · AnimalsPAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY: $20,100 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC: $137,869 · PhilanthropyTRULIGHT MINISTRIES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMUSKINGUM COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $17,238 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Guernsey and Noble Counties Inc: $6,800 · PhilanthropyLicking County Family YMCA: $35,600 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,000 · Human ServicesCOLER HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $28,350 · Human ServicesFOREVERDADS: $23,212 · Human ServicesHOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC: $20,800 · Human ServicesMUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $12,000 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$4,738,950Other$3,902,970Education$822,174Health$257,069Animals$188,615Philanthropy$186,907Human Services$148,962

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 budgetMUSKINGUM RECREATION CENTER: $4,738,950 over 2y, 38% of budgetZANE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $263,129 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetGENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $237,069 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $231,706 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $229,904 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $204,983 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC: $137,869 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetMUSKINGUM COUNTY HUNGER NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetTRANSITIONS INC: $113,870 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Animal Shelter Society Inc: $108,601 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetFOODWORKS ALLIANCE LLC: $107,310 over 4y, 30% of budgetMUSKINGUM FAMILY Y: $102,326 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetEAST MUSKINGUM STUDENT ENDOWMENT FU: $82,919 over 7y, 85% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $59,914 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNational Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate: $47,994 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $47,782 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $40,997 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CARR CENTER INC: $40,581 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLicking County Family YMCA: $35,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSIONARY MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC: $31,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetZANESVILLE MUSKINGUM COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,470 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $28,535 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLER HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $28,350 over 2y, 11% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $27,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRULIGHT MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF APPALACHIAN OHIO: $23,890 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOREVERDADS: $23,212 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMUSKINGUM VALLEY PARK SOCIETY: $22,900 over 2y, 59% of budgetZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $21,316 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBETHEL MISSION INC: $21,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHOMELESS HANDS OF ZANEVILLE LLC: $20,800 over 2y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF MRC LTD: $20,517 over 1y, 48% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL INC: $20,294 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY: $20,100 over 2y, 14% of budgetBreaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMUSKINGUM COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $17,238 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEARTBEATS FOR LIFE: $14,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS: $14,050 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMUSKINGUM COUNTY CENTER FOR SENIORS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetY-CITY MIDGET BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACTION GROUP: $8,880 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Guernsey and Noble Counties Inc: $6,800 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE: $5,850 over 1y, 3.9% 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 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 ↗

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.

J William & Mary Stra…Robert E Fellers and …Taylor-McHenry Memori…Energy Cooperative Ro…Park National Corpora…Rogge Cora E Memorial…Peoples Bank Foundati…American Electric Pow…Adams Family Foundati…Littick Arline Clay C…The Knights Foundatio…United Way of Musking…
J William & Mary Straker Charitable FdnOH61.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 100 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 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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