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W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005 at a glance

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W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$300kHealth$38kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$21kCommunity Improvement$21kHuman Services$17kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN$50,000
YWCA MAHONING VALLEY$4,401
POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM$3,000
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$2,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO$2,500
LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING$2,500
DYLANS HOUSE$2,000
ENGLISH CENTER$2,000
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAHONING VALLEY$2,000
YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE INC$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
URSULINE SISTERS MISSION$1,000
OPERA WESTERN RESERVE INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $4k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $4k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $4k → 19%YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $3k → 19%GOLDEN STRINGS INC: $3k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $1k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 19 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$453k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • YM
    YWCA MAHONING VALLEY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • PD
    POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +28%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF THE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • LT
    LAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Economic Action Group Incorporated

To solidify and accelerate downtown youngstown's resurgence as a center of employment, higher education, government services & culture, and to serve as a catalyst for overall economic development in the mahoning valley.

Community Improvement
2
Muskingum Recreation Center

Dedicated to providing residents and visitors a safe, clean, and well maintained facility that promotes health, education, and recreation through a network of quality programs, activities, and amenities.

Recreation & Sports
3
Ohio Business Leadership Network
—
4
Vision Usa - the Ohio Vision Project Inc
Health
5
Mahoning Valley Manufacturers Foundation Inc

To promote the education and training of the manufacturing work force in northeast ohio and western pennsylvania. grant support to local manufacturers coalition in furtherance of the stated purpose.

Community Improvement
6
Akron Soul Train

Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…

Arts & Culture
7
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

The united way of youngstown and the mahoning valley seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.

Philanthropy
8
The Junior League of Dayton Ohio Inc

Promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

—
9
Geauga Lyric Theatre Guild

To provide arts education and performance opportunities to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in a celebration of the power of art to inspire, transform, and elevate the quality of community life.

—
10
Muskingum County Arts Council

The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.

Community Improvement
11
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
12
Morgantown Theatre Company

Teaching Theatre Arts to Youth

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Helms Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $300,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWNAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,500 · Other+12 more: $46,596 · Other+12 moreBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA Western Reserve Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $14,831 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $12,080 · Human ServicesGOLDEN STRING INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY: $12,000 · InternationalLEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC: $9,500 · Public BenefitGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $7,000 · Education
Other$378,096Arts & Culture$29,500Human Services$29,411International$12,000Public Benefit$9,500Youth Development$8,500Education$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $14,831 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $12,080 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY: $12,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC: $9,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENGLISH CENTER: $4,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDYLAN'S HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA Western Reserve Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGOLDEN STRING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHelms Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetURSULINE SISTERS MISSION: $1,000 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.

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 …Senator Maurice & Flo…Walter E & Caroline H…Youngstown Fdn GeneralRuth Beecher H XI Cha…Frances Schermer Char…The Raymond John Wean…Premier Bank Foundati…Frank & Pearl Gelbman…The William B Pollock…William B Pollock II …J Ford Crandall Depos…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH34.6× affinity14 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 · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Youngstown Fdn General · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The William B Pollock Company Foundation · William B Pollock II & Kathryn Challis · J Ford Crandall Depository

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 W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 26 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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