· Private foundation
Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund
PROVIDING CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO YOUTH, VETERANS, PUBLIC SERVANTS, NONPROFITS, AND THE DISABLED IN THE WOOSTER, OHIO COMMUNITY.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOOSTER YOUTH INSTRUCTIONAL FOOTBALL | $12,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 255 | $6,000 |
| OHIO'S HOSPICE LIFECARE | $5,500 |
| WOOSTER EMBLEM CLUB | $5,500 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS OHIO | $5,000 |
| TRINITY UNITED CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ONEEIGHTY | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $4,000 |
| PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $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 |
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 (FY25–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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.
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.
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.
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
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
All of the expenses of the cww are for the purpose of improving local government and administration through cooperative efforts. all services are provided to various communities in western wayne county, michigan.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To enrich the quality of life for individuals and families of wyandot county, ohio.
The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
Providing access to quality primary health care for all.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Includeability. 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 20 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 56 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 WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds ONEEIGHTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
- Who funds THE CARING CLOSET ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds STIRRUP COURAGE ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHUDDLE 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: Wayne County Community Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Romich Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Charles Loehr Charitable Trust · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund 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.
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