· Community foundation
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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
- $250k+26 grants · $90M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M 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
- SOSOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +4% · 53% of their budget
- PMPORTSMOUTH MURALS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +79%
- SASTEVEN A HUNTER HOPE FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- MSMarket Square Park LLCone grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +4%
- SCScioto County Childrens Museum Incone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -62%
- CCCornerstone Church of Portsmouthone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Wesleyan University and 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 104 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Scioto County Area 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.