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· Private foundation
WOOSTER ELKS LODGE NO 1346
PROVIDING CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO YOUTH, VETERANS, PUBLIC SERVANTS, NONPROFITS, AND THE DISABLED IN THE WOOSTER, OHIO COMMUNITY.
$144k
Granted FY2025
56
Grants
7
Communities
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of WOOSTER ELKS LODGE NO 1346’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2024
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2025
northwesternequipment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 56 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
- WOOSTER YOUTH INSTRUCTIONAL FOOTBALL$12,000
- WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
- VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 255$6,000
- WOOSTER EMBLEM CLUB$5,500
- OHIO'S HOSPICE LIFECARE$5,500
- ADAPTIVE SPORTS OHIO$5,000
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$4,000
- PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES$4,000
- TRINITY UNITED CHURCH$4,000
- ONEEIGHTY$4,000
- UNITED WAY OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTY$3,500
- PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$3,500
- WOOSTER HOPE CENTER$3,000
- CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME$3,000
- SALVATION ARMY$3,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$200k · 33 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
33
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Total granted
$200k
$2k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+41%
+2%
Still filing today
24%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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
- PTPEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +4%
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +35%
- OONEEIGHTY2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SCSANTMYER COMPANIES CHARITY GOLFone grant, 2024 · $1k
- NCNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $400 · revenue +2%
- WEWOOSTER ELKS LODGEone grant, 2024 · $366
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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Wayne County Cooperative
County fair activities
Community Improvement
2
Wyandot County Community Foundation
To enrich the quality of life for individuals and families of wyandot county, ohio.
Philanthropy
3
Wayne County Humane Society
Animals
4
Wellsville Community Foundation
The Wellsville Community Foundation is dedicated to the common good, general welfare and civic benefits of the Wellsville, Ohio community and its environs.
Philanthropy
5
Wayne County Humane Society
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Animals
6
Conference of Western Wayne
The conference of western wayne is a consortium of eighteen western wayne county communities joined in an effort to improve local government and local services through cooperation and collaboration.
Community Improvement
7
The College of Wooster
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.
Education
8
Wayne County Community Services
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Community Improvement
9
Western Reserve Community Fund Inc
Organized to support and further community development and job creation in the state of ohio.
Community Improvement
10
United Way of North Central
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
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11
United Way of Henry County
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
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12
Northwestern Ohio Community Action Commi
The purpose and function of nocac is to plan, develop, and coordinate programs and services to combat poverty for the residents of defiance, fulton, henry, paulding, van wert and williams counties. nocac works on behalf of low-income…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohuddle Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Elks National Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$194,566Human Services$24,000Philanthropy$19,566Crime & Legal$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,400Health$2,000
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.
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.
Wayne County Community FoundationOH26.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation WOOSTER ELKS LODGE NO 1346 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CARING CLOSET.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 900588232 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE CARING CLOSET, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346?
Find your warmest path to Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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