· Private foundation
The Mylander Fdn-2001
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $851k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRELANDS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $204,861 |
| CITY OF SANDUSKY | $109,259 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $109,259 |
| SANDUSKY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $109,259 |
| SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE | $100,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $68,287 |
| ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES | $50,000 |
| SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE | $50,000 |
| AT STILL UNIVERSITY | $40,972 |
| FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $40,972 |
| SANDUSKY BLUE STREAKS BOOSTERS CLUB | $33,333 |
| SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Mylander Fdn-2001’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, 97% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 82% — 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 +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 19 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- FRFIRELANDS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
- BGBowling Green State University Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +111%
- FSFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $353k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SCSANDUSKY CAREER CENTER LPN PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $48k
- FHFATHER'S HEART MINISTRYone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, enhancement, and sustainable development of the lake erie watershed in pennsylvania.
Preserve, interpret and educate our community and our visitors on the rich history of the lake erie islands.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
Strenghten the foundations of our organization while attaining financial sustainability through diversification, engagement, and expansion of our porgrams, displays, and outreach to enhance our ability to provide education and promote…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. 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 32 years old; the field is 22. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 162 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 FIRELANDS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds A T Still University of Health Sciences ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CO INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-MOTOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OH-GO ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
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: The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · Sidney Frohman Foundation · Randolph J and Estelle M Dorn Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation · The Murray & Murray Charitable Foundation · The Twenty First Century Foundation · Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation 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 Mylander Fdn-2001 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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