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The Van Wert County Foundation

The mission of THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION is to transform quatilty of life by inspiring, fulfilling, and supporting philanthropy in an effort to create a well-resourced and thriving quality of life for our surrounding communities.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$306k
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.

Arts & Culture$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.6MEducation$2.5MReligion$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$722kEmployment$576kPhilanthropy$558kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $1,431,072, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,527,188 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,096,116 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $511k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $506k
  • $250k+1 grant · $306k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAN WERT AREA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$306,116
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$141,567
VANTAGE CAREER CENTER$138,279
VAN WERT CITY SCHOOLS$115,291
WASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCIATION$110,915
NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY CHURCH$45,000
CRESTVIEW LOCAL SCHOOLS$41,620
OHIO HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,664
VAN WERT COUNTY 4-H$35,000
CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY$32,303
YMCA OF VAN WERT COUNTY$30,656
BRUMBACK LIBRARY$27,082
MAIN STREET VAN WERT INC$25,000
WEE CARE LEARNING CENTER$23,022
LIFEWISE ACADEMY$21,215
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 (FY17–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $5k → 14%PROJECT LIFESAVER: $8k → 9%YWCA: $50k → 9%YWCA: $25k → 9%YWCA: $25k → 9%YWCA: $25k → 9%YWCA: $20k → 9%MERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%PLC HEALTH CLINIC: $15k → 9%YWCA OF VAN WERT COUNTY: $11k → 9%YWCA: $10k → 9%YMCA OF VAN WERT COUNTY: $8k → 9%PLC HEALTH CLINIC: $8k → 9%YWCA: $7k → 9%YWCA: $7k → 9%YWCA: $6k → 9%YWCA: $6k → 9%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Van Wert County Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 88%.

The Van Wert County Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 52 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
21

Total granted

$14M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-1%

Still filing today

48%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WA
    WASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $695k · revenue +65% · 49% of their budget
  • Culver Educational Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +73%
  • VW
    Van Wert County Agricultural Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • VW
    VAN WERT COUNTY TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $43k
  • VW
    VAN WERT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • MR
    MERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -1%
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
Van Wert Housing Services Inc

To provide lifetime affordable, safe, and accessible housing for individuals with disabilities who reside in van wert county in the state of ohio.

Housing & Shelter
2
The Van Wyck Council On the Arts & Culture Inc

The mission of The Howland Cultural Center is threefold: 1) To protect and preserve this historic building, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and commissioned by his brother-in-law, Civil War General Joseph Howland in 1872, and placed on the…

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3
Van Meter Public Library Foundation
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4
Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio

Family health care (fhc) is dedicated to providing high quality, patient-centered care to all residents of van wert and surrounding counties. fhc offers medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients regardless of a person's…

Health
5
Van Wert High School Athletic Boosters Inc

Various athletic programs at the school

Education
6
Van Buren Community Development Organization

To collaborate with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners to improve the economic well being and quality of life for citizens of van buren and surrounding areas.

Community Improvement
7
Voelker Orth Museum
Philanthropy
8
United Way of Van Wert County Inc

To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. the united way of van wert county, inc. tries to improve the quality of life throughout van wert county by allocating resources accordingly.

Philanthropy
9
Van Buren Township of Clay County Volunteer Fire Department Inc

The fire department responds to vehicle accidents, fire emergency calls and other medical emergencies.

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10
Van Wert High School Band Parents Association Inc

Assist in maintaining an adequate uniform fund, lend assistance to the band director, and promote the general interest and welfare of the band

Education
11
Vanderlip Heritage Fund Inc
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12
Wabash Valley Recovery Center
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Van Wert County Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Life Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 76 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VAN WERT COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY: $1,906,752 · OtherVAN WERT COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITYVANTAGE CAREER CENTER: $1,210,824 · OtherVANTAGE CAREER CENTERCITY OF VAN WERT: $1,173,577 · OtherCITY OF VAN WERTFIRST CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHEREN IN CHRIST VAN WERT: $743,176 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHEREN IN CHRIST VAN WERTVAN WERT CITY SCHOOLS: $636,446 · OtherVAN WERT CITY SCHOOLSFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $520,023 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION: $447,745 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $432,902 · Other+47 more: $2,481,660 · Other+47 moreTHE VAN WERT AREA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $2,835,930 · Arts & CultureTHE VAN WERT AREA PERFORMING…WASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $694,902 · Arts & CultureWASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCI…+3 more: $165,909 · Arts & CultureCulver Educational Foundation: $264,638 · EducationSigma Chi Foundation: $132,266 · EducationMAIN STREET VAN WERT INC: $69,700 · EducationLINCOLNVIEW BIBLE BOARD: $51,850 · Education+2 more: $33,000 · EducationBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF VAN WERT INC: $222,891 · Community ImprovementVAN WERT AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $64,104 · Community ImprovementVAN WERT AREA CONV AND VISITORS BUREAU: $10,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN OF VAN WERT CO OHIO: $200,235 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY LIFE CENTER: $22,557 · Human ServicesMERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC: $19,626 · Human Services+2 more: $12,728 · Human ServicesVan Wert County Agricultural Society: $245,194 · Food & NutritionVAN WERT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $223,436 · Animals
Other$9,553,105Arts & Culture$3,696,741Education$551,454Community Improvement$296,995Human Services$255,146Food & Nutrition$245,194Animals$223,436

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 budgetTHE VAN WERT AREA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $2,835,930 over 8y, 41% of budgetWASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $694,902 over 7y, 49% of budgetTHE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION: $447,745 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $432,902 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $264,638 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVan Wert County Agricultural Society: $245,194 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $223,436 over 4y, 48% of budgetBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF VAN WERT INC: $222,891 over 7y, 71% of budgetTHE LIBRARY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION OF THE BRUMBACK LIBRARY VAN WERT C: $215,930 over 8y, 100% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $200,860 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN OF VAN WERT CO OHIO: $200,235 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetVAN WERT ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUST: $146,171 over 8y, 90% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $132,266 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER INC: $128,896 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $88,177 over 8y, 40% of budgetVAN WERT SERVICE CLUB INC: $76,920 over 8y, 31% of budgetMAIN STREET VAN WERT INC: $69,700 over 3y, 20% of budgetVAN WERT AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $64,104 over 3y, 20% of budgetVAN WERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $62,232 over 6y, 15% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $59,799 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLNVIEW BIBLE BOARD: $51,850 over 8y, 11% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $42,693 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCROSS OVER THE HILL: $35,528 over 4y, 21% of budgetPREGNANCY LIFE CENTER: $22,557 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC: $19,626 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestwood Behavioral Health Center Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVILLAGE OF CONVOY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE MARSH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF VW CO OHIO: $12,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $10,684 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPIONS FIELD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVAN WERT AREA CONV AND VISITORS BUREAU: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LIFESAVER INC: $7,630 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVAN WERT COUNTY VICTIMS SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $5,098 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 THE VAN WERT AREA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASSENBERG ART CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Van Wert County Agricultural Society ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF VAN WERT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION OF THE BRUMBACK LIBRARY VAN WERT C ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN OF VAN WERT CO OHIO ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT SERVICE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET VAN WERT INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VAN WERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLNVIEW BIBLE BOARD ↗

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.

United Way of Van Wer…Columbus FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Van Wert County IncOH30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Van Wert County Inc · Columbus Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Van Wert County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Van Wert County 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 76 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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