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The William W and Margaret L Bresnahan Foundation at a glance

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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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$64kHousing & Shelter$51kHuman Services$35kHealth$33kPhilanthropy$29kReligion$26kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGELS AMONG US - DUKE UNIVERSITY$7,200
CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,500
PROJECTIAM$4,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$4,000
ST BEDE CATHOLIC CHURCH$3,600
RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY$3,500
ANIMAL CHARITY OF OHIO$3,500
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$3,000
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
MILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION$2,500
UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN & MAHONING VALLEY$2,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
PROJECT MKC$1,500
MAINSTREET WAYNESBORO$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND: $300 → 11%CASTING CAROLINAS: $6k → 12%PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES: $2k → 24%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $2k → 7%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $2k → 13%CASTING CAROLINAS: $3k → 12%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $2k → 7%CASTING CAROLINAS: $2k → 12%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $2k → 7%CASTING CAROLINAS: $1k → 12%PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES: $250 → 24%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $1k → 7%CASTING CAROLINAS: $1k → 12%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $1k → 7%CASTING CAROLINAS: $500 → 12%WAYNESBORO NEW HOPE SHELTER: $500 → 9%WAYNESBORO NEW HOPE SHELTER: $500 → 9%HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO: $1k → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%MANAHAN (FKA JOSINA LOTT RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $200 → 18%GOLDEN STRING: $2k → 19%MAGIC OF MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 47 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
27

Total granted

$284k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+3%

Still filing today

51%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
  • TC
    THE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    Casting Carolinas Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PV
    PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • BH
    BEATITUDE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -4%
  • GS
    GOLDEN STRING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -15%
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
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
2
Findlay Hope House for the Homeless Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity

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…

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4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
5
United Housing Connections

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.

Community Improvement
6
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
7
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
8
Butler County United Way

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…

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9
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

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…

Philanthropy
10
Orrville United Way Inc

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…

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11
Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANGELS AMONG US - DUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,600 · OtherANGELS AMONG US - DUKE UNIVERSITYFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCPROJECTIAM: $13,000 · OtherPROJECTIAMDUKE UNIVERSITY - ANGELS: $12,635 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY - ANGELSIndividual grant recipient: $9,250 · OtherTRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $8,300 · OtherBETHANY HOUSE: $8,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME ACADEMY: $7,500 · OtherST MARY'S COLLEGE: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: $6,000 · OtherANIMAL CHARITY OF OHIO INC: $6,500 · Other+46 more: $65,150 · Other+46 moreRESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY: $29,500 · Housing & ShelterRESCUE MISS…SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterCasting Carolinas Inc: $13,900 · Human ServicesCasting Car…WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $8,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSBUR…PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW C…GOLDEN STRING INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesGOLDEN STRI…PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $1,750 · Human ServicesPLACE OF PO…Manahan: $1,200 · Human Services+5 more: $2,850 · Human Services+5 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $24,520 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED…YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $2,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyTHE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,200 · HealthCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF MAHONING COUNTY: $1,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,500 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $1,400 · EducationMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsON TARGET OUTFITTERS: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$174,435Housing & Shelter$32,000Human Services$31,500Philanthropy$27,770Health$16,400Education$14,900Recreation & Sports$13,500

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 budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY: $29,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $24,520 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,200 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCasting Carolinas Inc: $13,900 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetWILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL CHARITY OF OHIO INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE SYLVANIA INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MAHONING VALLEY: $4,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN: $3,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC: $3,450 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $1,750 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MKC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP TOLEDO: $1,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $1,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetManahan: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEAK LAB RESCUE INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE IN PARTNERSHIP: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBORO NEW HOPE SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetON TARGET OUTFITTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF MAHONING COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExpERIEnce Children's Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverbend Equine Therapy: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HORSES INC: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC OF MICHAEL FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasture Pals Equine Rescue: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ↗
  • Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
  • Who funds PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MKC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗

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.

Farmers Charitable Fo…Community Foundation …Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…James & Coralie Cento…Firstenergy FoundationFibushendricks Family…The Raymond John Wean…Toledo Community Foun…John D Finnegan FdnYoungstown Area Jewis…Mahoning Valley Hospi…
Farmers Charitable Foundation Xxx-Xx-XxxxOH30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 W and Margaret L Bresnahan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William W and Margaret L Bresnahan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    11report 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.

    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 83 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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