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Wayne County Community Foundation
The mission of the WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to provide philanthropic leadership to the community of wayne county, ohio.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 137 grants below total $7,766,090 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,094,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,328,315 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $216k
- $10k–50k67 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC | $1,056,391 |
| WOOSTER CITY SCHOOLS | $459,838 |
| PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $386,452 |
| WAYNE COUNTY REGIONAL TRAINING FACILITY | $300,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $290,915 |
| HEALTHCARE 2000 DBA THE VIOLA STARTZMAN CLINIC | $289,016 |
| WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $271,700 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $254,240 |
| YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $250,000 |
| ORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $196,256 |
| WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $194,492 |
| WOOSTER YOUTH BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE INC | $148,548 |
| SHREVE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $135,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES INC | $113,040 |
| WOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $106,550 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
187 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 27 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; $520k 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
- OAORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +37% · 45% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF WAYNE COUNTY FAIR7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +117% · 59% of their budget
- TDTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC3× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +317% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- FFOODSPHEREone grant, 2024 · $309k
- BIBEACHLABSORG INCone grant, 2019 · $155k
- MAMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +90%
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.
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To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.
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To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohuddle Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Aac Institute Fka International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
225 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. 225 of the 340 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Stifel Charitable Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION (WCFRA) ↗
- Who funds ORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WAYNE COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO ↗
- Who funds ONEEIGHTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN WAYNE COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Wayne County ↗
- Who funds Heritage Private School Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLMES COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COUNSELING CENTER OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST VIEW MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER ↗
- Who funds FOODSPHERE ↗
- Who funds ANIA ICE INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO ↗
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: Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Romich Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Orrville United Way Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · Akron Community Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness 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 Wayne County Community 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.
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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