· Private foundation
The William W and Margaret L Bresnahan 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE WILLIAM W AND MARGARET L BRESNAHAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANGELS AMONG US - DUKE UNIVERSITY | $7,200 |
| CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| PROJECTIAM | $4,000 |
| ST BEDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,600 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY OF OHIO | $3,500 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY | $3,500 |
| TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $3,000 |
| MILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN & MAHONING VALLEY | $2,500 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PROJECT MKC | $1,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NICU | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
- TCTHE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +38%
- CCCasting Carolinas Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BHBEATITUDE HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -4%
- PVPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- GSGOLDEN STRING INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -15%
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.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The mission of hope house is to provide housing solutions, support and education to meet the needs of individuals and families facing homelessness in our community.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. maumee valley habitat for humanity adheres…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
The orrville united way improves lives by unitiing people and resources to advance the common good in orrville, dalton and marshallville in eastern wayne county ohio. our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent future problems…
Habitat for humanity of the lehigh valley, inc. engages in the construction, rehabilitation, critical home repair, and the sale of housing to economically disadvantaged people on a nonprofit basis in the lehigh valley area of pennsylvania.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pasture Pals Equine Rescue. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 83 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 RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Casting Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE SYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds MAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MKC ↗
- Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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: Farmers Charitable Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · James & Coralie Centofanti Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · John D Finnegan Fdn · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Mahoning Valley Hospital 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 William W and Margaret L Bresnahan 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.