· Private foundation
W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of W&H BENDER MEMORIAL FUND XXXXX8005’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% 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
- YMYWCA MAHONING VALLEY4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%
- PDPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +28%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF THEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LTLAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
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.
The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.
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.
Teaching Theatre Arts to Youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation and 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.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DYLAN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds Helms Foundation ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of Mahoning Valley ↗
- Who funds URSULINE SISTERS MISSION ↗
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: 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
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 W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005 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.