· Private foundation
Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $357k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $40,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $37,149 |
| MERCY HEALTH FDN | $37,149 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAHONING VALLEY | $19,060 |
| AKIVA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPM | $15,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| UNITED RETURNING CITIZENS INC | $12,500 |
| INSPIRING MINDS YOUNGSTOWN | $12,500 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION MAHONING VALLEY | $12,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $11,000 |
| STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS | $10,381 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +67% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 11 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $328k · revenue +234%
- CFCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN7× · 2018–2025 · $87k · revenue +67%
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +419%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- OUOHIO URBAN RENAISSANCEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -66%
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 strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
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…
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.
The organization's mission is to establish effective programs that mobilize and utilize bothpublic and private resources in a proactive and concerted attack on poverty in muskingum county, ohio and its surrounding areas by establishing and…
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
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…
Provide financial services to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Safe House Ministries. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 104 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 Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds KOOL BOIZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE SISTERS MISSION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
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 · Youngstown Fdn General · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Premier Bank Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Trust Uw David Tod Arrel · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008
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 Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust 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.