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The Raymond John Wean Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$665k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$7.7MYouth Development$1.8MHuman Services$998kEducation$783kRecreation & Sports$533kPublic Benefit$369kArts & Culture$362kSocial Science$268kOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $287k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $942k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 12%JUNIOR CIVIC LEAGUE: $2k → 14%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $1k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $1k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL NORTHEAST OHIO DISTRICT COUNCIL INC: $3k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL NORTHEAST OHIO DISTRICT COUNCIL INC: $3k → 16%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $1k → 11%LEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $500 → 11%TRUMBULL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $10k → 16%TRUMBULL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $10k → 16%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS: $87k → 19%EMPOWER SPORTS: $500 → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $500 → 17%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS: $32k → 19%EMPOWER SPORTS: $500 → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $500 → 17%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $10k → 19%EMPOWER SPORTS: $500 → 17%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $5k → 19%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $5k → 19%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $500 → 17%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $4k → 19%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $1k → 19%CITY KIDS CARE INC: $2k → 19%CITY KIDS CARE INC: $2k → 19%MAHONING YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $3k → 19%DIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO: $5k → 19%GREATER WARREN YOUNGSTOWN URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 16%GREATER WARREN-YOUNGSTOWN URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 16%GREATER WARREN-YOUNGSTOWN URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 16%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $10k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $171k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $15k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $15k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $8k → 19%GOLDEN STRING INC: $5k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $5k → 19%GOLDEN STRING INC: $5k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $5k → 19%GOLDEN STRING INC: $5k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $5k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $3k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $2k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DE
DC
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 116 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
86

Total granted

$13M
$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

66%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • YN
    YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +250%
  • TN
    TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +159% · 27% of their budget
  • IM
    Inspiring Minds
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • YC
    YSU CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $216k
  • OV
    OHIO VOICEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +27%
  • CO
    CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
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
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
2
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
3
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights
7
Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy

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.

Human Services
8
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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9
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
10
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
11
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
12
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/131
Grantees still filing
85/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $2,743,480 · Community ImprovementTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED: $504,090 · Community ImprovementECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATEDVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC: $308,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNER…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $270,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Cent…FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $186,667 · Community Improvement+13 more: $270,909 · Community Improvement+13 moreYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,140,185 · Housing & ShelterYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DE…+3 more: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MV: $780,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE M…YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICT: $237,800 · OtherYOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS DISTR…YSU CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP: $216,493 · OtherYSU CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEAD…FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $137,500 · OtherORGANIZACION CIVICA Y CULTURAL HISPANA AMERICANA INC: $130,000 · OtherOCCHA Inc: $127,000 · OtherHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $155,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES: $145,000 · Other+144 more: $1,603,389 · Other+144 moreInspiring Minds: $1,689,500 · Recreation & SportsInspiring Min…+1 more: $4,200 · Recreation & SportsYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $227,500 · Human ServicesUNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $143,365 · Human ServicesTRUMBULL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN STRING INC: $15,000 · Human Services+9 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $127,000 · EducationYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $99,048 · EducationBLAIR ACADEMY: $37,500 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $37,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $16,994 · EducationPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $266,500 · Social Science
Community Improvement$4,283,146Housing & Shelter$3,171,185Other$3,532,682Recreation & Sports$1,693,700Human Services$445,865Education$351,042Social Science$266,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,140,185 over 5y, 16% of budgetTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $2,743,480 over 5y, 27% of budgetInspiring Minds: $1,689,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetECONOMIC ACTION GROUP INCORPORATED: $504,090 over 5y, 36% of budgetVALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INC: $308,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $270,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $266,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $227,500 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $186,667 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $155,500 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES: $145,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $143,365 over 4y, 26% of budgetFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $137,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC: $132,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOCCHA Inc: $127,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $127,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $110,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $103,284 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $99,048 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST: $45,600 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetTRUMBULL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $38,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHRIVE MAHONING VALLEY: $26,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetProtestant Family Service of the Greater Youngstown Area Inc: $24,833 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetLIT Youngstown: $24,600 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTRUMBULL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFutureHeights Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKOOL BOIZ FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetHELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE: $14,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS COUNCIL: $13,034 over 5y, 19% of budgetASSOCIATED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $12,954 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEVOLVE INNOVATION CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetOak Hill Collaborative Inc: $12,150 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUMBULL ART GALLERY: $11,600 over 3y, 5.4% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…Walter E & Caroline H…Western Reserve Healt…Frank & Pearl Gelbman…The United Way of You…The William Swanston …The George Gund Found…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Ruth Beecher H XI Cha…Frances Schermer Char…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH130.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Raymond John Wean Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Raymond John Wean Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Raymond John Wean Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Raymond John Wean Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 230 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-PF 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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