· Private foundation
The Raymond John Wean Foundation
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 $10k72 grants · $287k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $942k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $665,000 |
| TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP | $589,900 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICT | $155,400 |
| VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC | $154,000 |
| FREEDOM ROC | $132,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MV | $131,000 |
| ORGANIZACION CIVICA Y CULTURAL HISPANA AMERICANA INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS | $86,500 |
| BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL | $66,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $60,000 |
| HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $57,000 |
| FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE | $43,334 |
| ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INC | $25,540 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE WELLNESS AGENCY | $25,000 |
| WARREN HERITAGE CENTER | $15,810 |
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, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 26 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +250%
- TNTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +161% · 27% of their budget
- IMInspiring Minds5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- YCYSU CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIPone grant, 2022 · $216k
- OVOHIO VOICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +27%
- COCITY OF YOUNGSTOWNone grant, 2021 · $70k
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.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
To conduct research and educational programs on affordable energy policies, to advocate on behalf of affordable energy policies, and to implement and manage energy efficiency and related programs.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Blessed With a Bag. 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 23 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers ↗
- Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
- Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCCHA Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds Protestant Family Service of the Greater Youngstown Area 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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Western Reserve Health Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · The George Gund Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008
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 Raymond John Wean 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
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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