· Private foundation
The Twenty First Century 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $879k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+2 grants · $664k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEIJER | $384,010 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - NORWALK | $280,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $210,000 |
| MONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $100,000 |
| NORWALK ARTS CENTER | $100,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| OH-GO | $35,000 |
| MONROEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $31,250 |
| NORWALK AREA UNITED FUND | $30,000 |
| NORWALK CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EHOVE CAREER CENTER | $28,000 |
| SENECA EAST LOCAL SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| ARTISTS' OPEN STUDIO | $25,000 |
| HURON COUNTY JOB AND FAMILY SERVICE | $25,000 |
| SENECA COUNTY JOB FAMILY | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 20 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $476k 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
- MAMONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS3× · 2021–2025 · $201k · revenue +178%
- NANORWALK AREA UNITED FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +46%
- SHSENECA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY6× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- JFJOB FAMILY SERVICES - SANDUSKY COone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Promote huron county, ohio business
Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio
To provide services to homeless animals
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The mission of the huron county community foundation is to provide for the enrichment of the quality life in huron county by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a charitable…
The prevention of cruelty to animals in holmes county, ohio through education and awareness.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Caring for the health and well-being of various animals - mainly dogs and cats.
Humane treatement of animals
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
The sole purpose of the humane society foundation is to provide funds and an operating facility for the humane society & spca of hancock county, findlay ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christophers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Bags. 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 28 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 257 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 OH-GO ↗
- Who funds MONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds NORWALK AREA UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds SENECA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN SENECA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SENECA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO 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: Geotrac Charitable Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation · Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Sidney Frohman Foundation · Huron County Community Foundation · Infinity Trust · The Cleveland 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 Twenty First Century 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.
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.