· Private foundation
The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $563k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $618k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISCOVERY SCHOOL | $167,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY LAND BANK | $83,333 |
| UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY | $61,000 |
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $56,667 |
| THIRD STREET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES | $50,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL | $50,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $50,000 |
| UPSTATE HOME FOR CHILDREN FD | $40,000 |
| RENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOC | $38,667 |
| RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS | $38,333 |
| MANSFIELD ART CENTER | $38,333 |
| MANSFIELD CITY SCHOOLS | $33,333 |
| WAYFINDERS OHIO INC | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDISCOVERY SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $296k · revenue +33%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO7× · 2019–2025 · $281k · revenue +50%
- UWUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY6× · 2019–2025 · $271k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TRTAKING ROOT FARMS INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -64%
- NENORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2023 · $67k · revenue -54%
- OBOHIO BIRD SANCTUARYone grant, 2019 · $63k
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.
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.
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To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
The sandusky state theatre was originally created in 1928 and was reinvented several times since its inception. the arts, particularly the performing arts, are a reflection and a documentation of our culture and society. therefore, in…
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How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 144 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Richland County Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gorman Family Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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