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The Scioto County Area Foundation

The mission of the Scioto Foundation is to improve, enhance, and enrich the quality of life for all residents of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, through practicing wise and careful investment of assets, providing a continuous stream of income to benefit community needs and the intent of our donors, promoting philanthropy to all…

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$28M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$47MArts & Culture$33MReligion$9.7MRecreation & Sports$2.8MCommunity Improvement$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MAnimals$1.0MPublic Benefit$885kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
  • $250k+26 grants · $90M
$530,909
Median grant
4
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Ohio Museum$27,893,517
Shawnee State University$24,798,623
Sciotoville Christian Church$4,357,801
Ohio University & Branches$4,233,804
Marshall University$4,065,894
Portsmouth Murals Inc$2,887,673
Notre Dame Schools$2,593,515
Morehead State University$1,919,816
University of Cincinnati$1,811,633
Steven A Hunter Hope Fund INC$1,678,904
South Central Ohio ESC$1,653,458
University of Rio Grande$1,550,733
Main Street Portsmouth$1,395,041
Otterbein University$1,052,283
University of Kentucky$828,832
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CSS St Francis Catholic Outreach Center: $12k → 15%American Red Cross: $10k → 18%American Red Cross Tri-State Chapter: $10k → 18%American Red Cross: $10k → 18%Hill View Retirement Center: $768k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministry: $531k → 22%Catholic Social Services: $21k → 22%Potters House Ministies: $16k → 22%Potters House Ministries: $14k → 22%HILLVIEW RETIREMENT CENTER: $13k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministry: $13k → 22%SCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $12k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministry: $12k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministry: $12k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministry: $12k → 22%Hill View Retirement Ctr: $11k → 22%Scioto Christian Ministries: $10k → 22%Potters House Ministries: $10k → 22%Hill View Retirement Center: $8k → 22%Potters House Ministries: $7k → 22%Hill View Retirement Ctr: $7k → 22%CAO OF SCIOTO COUNTY: $6k → 22%Scioto County CAO: $6k → 22%Scioto County CAO: $6k → 22%Scioto County CAO: $6k → 22%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
OH
MO
KY
WV
KS
TN
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85M · 53 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
29

Total granted

$85M
$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+29%

Still filing today

53%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M 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 & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • SO
    SOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +4% · 53% of their budget
  • PM
    PORTSMOUTH MURALS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +79%
  • SA
    STEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MS
    Market Square Park LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +4%
  • SC
    Scioto County Childrens Museum Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -62%
  • CC
    Cornerstone Church of Portsmouth
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Ohio Christian University

Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
5
Defiance College

Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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7
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
8
University of Mount Union

The university affirms the institution's mission to prepare students for fulfilling lives, meaningful work and responsible citizenship. the university of mount union offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide array of academic…

Education
9
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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12
Mercyhurst University

Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Wesleyan University; the most unlike its peers is The Clyde and Maycel Clark Foundation Inc. 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

62 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. 62 of the 104 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Shawnee State University: $26,052,211 · OtherShawnee State UniversityOhio University: $4,480,553 · OtherOhio UniversityFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SCIOTOVILLE: $4,357,801 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SCIOTOVILLEMarshall University: $4,065,894 · OtherMarshall UniversityNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $2,717,358 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $1,940,109 · OtherMorehead State University: $1,919,816 · Other+59 more: $11,143,561 · Other+59 moreSOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION: $29,277,652 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATIONPORTSMOUTH MURALS INC: $2,906,735 · Arts & CulturePORTSMOUTH MURALS INCMAIN STREET PORTSMOUTH: $1,609,246 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $92,212 · Arts & CultureSTEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC: $1,754,765 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE: $1,594,798 · EducationOtterbein University: $1,083,383 · EducationOhio Northern University: $523,716 · Education+16 more: $246,973 · EducationHILL VIEW RETIREMENT CENTER: $807,220 · Human ServicesSCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $600,343 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Human Services+4 more: $133,964 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GREENLAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $649,195 · Public BenefitSierra's Haven For New And Used Pets: $343,800 · AnimalsMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $145,354 · Community ImprovementGrowing Lucasville Opportunities Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementOhio Alliance of YMCA's: $8,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Southern Ohio: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$56,677,303Arts & Culture$33,885,845Education$5,203,635Human Services$1,611,527Public Benefit$649,195Animals$343,800Community Improvement$175,854

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 budgetSOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION: $29,277,652 over 8y, 53% of budgetPORTSMOUTH MURALS INC: $2,906,735 over 2y, 21% of budgetSTEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC: $1,754,765 over 5y, 11% of budgetMAIN STREET PORTSMOUTH: $1,609,246 over 5y, 85% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE: $1,594,798 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetOtterbein University: $1,083,383 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHILL VIEW RETIREMENT CENTER: $807,220 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSHAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $662,522 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF GREENLAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $649,195 over 6y, 36% of budgetSCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $600,343 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetOhio Northern University: $523,716 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSierra's Haven For New And Used Pets: $343,800 over 8y, 17% of budgetMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $167,551 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $145,354 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $131,934 over 7y, 43% of budgetTHE CLYDE AND MAYCEL CLARK FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MISSION OUTREACH INC: $65,088 over 3y, 36% of budgetMarket Square Park LLC: $65,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetScioto County Childrens Museum Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSOUTHERN OHIO COMMUNITY CONCERT ASS DBA SOUTHERN OHIO PERFORMING ARTS A: $47,886 over 3y, 13% of budgetPOTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $47,217 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetShawnee State University Foundation: $44,394 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $38,691 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $33,407 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPORTSMOUTH LITTLE THEATRE INC: $32,212 over 3y, 40% of budgetWatch Me Grow Ohio: $32,006 over 3y, 36% of budgetFRIENDS OF ADAMS COUNTY 4-H & EXTENSION: $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $23,703 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF SCIOTO COUNTY INC: $23,340 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University: $21,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget14TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,043 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCedarville University: $17,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rarden Daily Bread Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGrowing Lucasville Opportunities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,879 over 2y, 50% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $14,820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $12,083 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA: $11,049 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Portsmouth Youth Basketball Assoc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLILY'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUNTINGTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCIOTO BRUSH CREEK INC: $9,500 over 1y, 40% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $8,335 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTSMOUTH MURALS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET PORTSMOUTH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE ↗
  • Who funds Otterbein University ↗
  • Who funds HILL VIEW RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GREENLAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
  • Who funds Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets ↗
  • Who funds MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLYDE AND MAYCEL CLARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND POLICE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗

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.

Southern Ohio Medical…The Glockner Family F…Peoples Bank Foundati…Pallottine Foundation…Richard D Marting Fou…Columbus FoundationThe Greater Cincinnat…The Ohio Foundation o…Community Foundations…American Electric Pow…The Dayton FoundationOsco Industries Found…
Southern Ohio Medical CenterOH36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southern Ohio Medical Center · The Glockner Family Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Richard D Marting Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Community Foundations Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Osco Industries Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 104 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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