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The William Swanston Charitable Fund

The corporation is organized and operated to make distributions which carry out the charitable purposes of the community foundation of the mahoning valley, who also provide support and assistance to abused, neglected and dependent children of mahoning valley, ohio.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$648kHuman Services$509kHealth$465kPhilanthropy$310kYouth Development$149kRecreation & Sports$110kEducation$90kFood & Nutrition$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $330,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $385,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,000 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $294k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY$25,000
YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID$20,000
INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN$20,000
HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC$20,000
EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER OF EASTERN OHIO$15,000
URSULINE SISTERS MISSION$15,000
SMITH TOWNSHIP$15,000
THRIVE MAHONING VALLEY$13,000
CADENCE CARE NETWORK$11,000
ACTION$10,000
NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES$10,000
YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR$10,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FOUNDATION$10,000
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, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $10k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $55k → 19%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $10k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $55k → 19%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $10k → 16%CADENCE CARE NETWORK: $15k → 16%CADENCE CARE NETWORK: $11k → 16%CADENCE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 19%UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $10k → 19%INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN INC: $20k → 19%INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN: $20k → 19%INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN: $15k → 19%DIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO: $20k → 19%DIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO: $10k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $15k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM: $10k → 19%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 23 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
20

Total granted

$1.8M
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-10%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • YN
    YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +482%
  • TN
    TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP
    6× · 2017–2023 · $267k · revenue +342%
  • AC
    ALTA CARE GROUP INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • HM
    HENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -96%
  • CO
    CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
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
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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2
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
3
The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley Inc

Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.

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4
Youth Advocate Services

Yas strives to provide culturally competent mental health treatment, independent living skill development and care planning services in order to prevent out of home placement.

Human Services
5
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
6
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
7
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

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8
Youth & Opportunity United Inc

Youth & opportunity united, inc. is a not-for-profit, youth development agency that provides services and leadership to meet the emerging needs of young people and their families in our community. y.o.u. programs are trauma-informed,…

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9
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children With Disabilities

The ohio coalition for the education of children with disabilities is a collaboration of parents, professionals, and partners advocating for children with disabilities to receive the educational services, experiences, and supports they…

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10
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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11
Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring

To insure that all children living in the organization's service area will have the opportunity to experience positive mentoring relationships.

Youth Development
12
Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties; the most unlike its peers is Trumbull County Youth Organization. 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

47 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. 47 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $195,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY & C…Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesInspiring Minds of…CADENCE CARE NETWORK: $36,000 · Human ServicesCADENCE CARE NETWO…NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO ADO…DIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO: $30,000 · Human ServicesDIRECTION HOME OF …POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPM…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUNGSTOWN OHIO INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $385,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHB…MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION MAHONING VALLEY: $75,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION MAHON…BEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $52,500 · OtherBEATITUDE HOUSE INCMahoning County CASA GAL Program: $45,000 · OtherMahoning County CASA GAL Prog…CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $25,000 · OtherHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $40,000 · OtherHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINI…ACTION INC: $30,000 · OtherHENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY: $50,000 · OtherHENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPP…CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION CENTER: $31,400 · OtherTRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATES: $30,000 · Other+23 more: $288,392 · Other+23 moreALTA CARE GROUP INC: $199,800 · HealthALTA CARE GROU…EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF MAHONING TRUMBULL AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES: $50,000 · HealthEASTER SEAL SO…Helms Foundation: $22,500 · HealthHelms Foundati…VISION TO LEARN: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $36,600 · Health+4 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $290,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN ARE…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $266,800 · Community ImprovementTRUMBULL NEIG…THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE YOUNGSTOW…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentShepherd of All Gods Children: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $30,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$401,000Housing & Shelter$385,000Other$667,292Health$323,900Philanthropy$320,000Community Improvement$301,800Youth Development$125,000

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 budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $385,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $290,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $266,800 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetALTA CARE GROUP INC: $199,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $195,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $52,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF MAHONING TRUMBULL AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY M HALSTEAD FIELD OF OPPORTUNITY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetShepherd of All Gods Children: $45,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetMahoning County CASA GAL Program: $45,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCADENCE CARE NETWORK: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHelms Foundation: $22,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUNGSTOWN OHIO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMayerson Academy for Human Resources: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURSULINE SISTERS MISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHRIVE MAHONING VALLEY: $13,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetASSOCIATED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF THE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFJC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC: $8,600 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTrumbull County Youth Organization: $7,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Youngstown Fdn GeneralWestern Reserve Healt…The Raymond John Wean…Premier Bank Foundati…The United Way of You…Walter E & Caroline H…Trust Uw David Tod Ar…Trumbull Memorial Hea…Senator Maurice & Flo…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Ruth Beecher H XI Cha…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH86× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Western Reserve Health Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Trust Uw David Tod Arrel · Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw

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 William Swanston Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William Swanston Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The William Swanston Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 58 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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