· Private foundation
William B Pollock II & Kathryn Challis
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: 41% of WILLIAM B POLLOCK II & KATHRYN CHALLIS’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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $34,000 |
| STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN | $25,000 |
| LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY | $10,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH YOUNGSTOWN | $10,000 |
| YWCA MAHONING VALLEY | $5,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| LIT YOUNGSTOWN | $5,000 |
| ENGLISH CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $73k) 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 +76% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +88%
- MVMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2023 · $108k · revenue +159%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $25k
- ACAKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $10k
- YAYOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.
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.
To provide training to electrical apprentices in mahoning and trumbull counties, and through that training to provide skilled workers to area employers.
To provide leadership and business services that promote the growth of our members and enhance the essential partnership between economic development and education to improve our quality of life.
To operate for charitable purposes that exclusively benefit or carry out the charitable, educational and/or economic development purposes of the youngstown/warren regional chamber.
To help organize and self-regulate those who deal with real estate in the mahoning and columbiana county areas of ohio.
To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
To eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To advance, promote and support the charitable purposes of the youngstown area jewish community board and the youngstown area jewish federation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley and the most unlike its peers is The English Center. 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 64 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIT Youngstown ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
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 · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The William B Pollock Company Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005
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 William B Pollock II & Kathryn Challis 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.
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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