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Community Foundation of Union Count

Marysville, OH · EIN 31-0628641. Reported 105 grants totalling $2,550,578 to 64 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

64organizations funded
$11,942median reported grant
$2,550,578granted, 2021-2024
59%of grantees funded again the next year
17%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of Union Count, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 64 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $11,942. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,098 and the largest $244,113. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
32 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
45 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Union County Family Young Mens Christian AssociationMarysville, OH$444,244442024
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic ChurchMarysville, OH$190,000332024
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural SocietiesReynoldsburg, OH$182,379222022
Marysville Exempted Village SchoolMarysville, OH$155,582332024
The Marysville Union ClubhouseMarysville, OH$135,200112023
Marysville Uptown Theatre LLCMarysville, OH$130,850332024
Union Christian MinistriesWesterville, OH$85,000542024
Care Train of Union CountyMarysville, OH$76,255442024
Donor Advised Charitable GivingLone Tree, CO$74,836112023
Marysville Area Ministerial AssociationMarysville, OH$55,000112021
Marysville Eagles AuxiliaryMarysville, OH$55,000222024
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural SocietiesMarysville, OH$55,000332024
Grace United Methodist ChurchCape Coral, FL$54,702112022
North Union Local SchoolsRichwood, OH$52,200322024
Second Chances of Union CountyMarysville, OH$51,100112022
New Dover United Methodist ChurchMarysville, OH$48,750442024
Cornerstone Global Methodist ChurchMarysville, OH$45,835332024
Union County Hospital AssociationMarysville, OH$44,546222022
Village of Milford CenterMilford Center, OH$34,027332024
Ohio State UniversityMarysville, OH$31,450222022
Flint Public LibraryFlint, MI$30,000112024
Pharisburg United Methodist ChurchMarysville, OH$30,000112021
Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocesan Council of ColumbusColumbus, OH$27,000332024
Trustees of Purdue UniversityWarsaw, IN$26,286322024
The Richwood Banking CompanyRichwood, OH$25,227222022
Jonathan Alder Local School DistricPlain City, OH$24,900222024
Union Rural Electric Co-Op IncMarysville, OH$20,500332023
Magnetic Pharisburg UMCMarysville, OH$20,000112023
Marmon Valley Ministries IncZanesfield, OH$20,000112022
Nuhop Center for Experiential LearningPerrysville, OH$18,750112024
Heart of Ohio Girls SoftballMarysville, OH$17,000222022
Echo IncN Ft Myers, FL$14,500112024
Iowa State UniversityAmes, IA$14,500112024
Ukraine Relief$14,000112022
Brave Men IncWesterville, OH$13,000112022
Hamburg Fireworks Display IncLancaster, OH$12,500112024
Richwood Independent Agricultural FairRichwood, OH$10,448222024
Arthur G James Cancer Hospital & Richard J Solove Rsrch Inst FndtnColumbus, OH$10,000112023
Community Lutheran ChurchSterling, VA$10,000112022
Fairbanks Panthers AthleticboostersMilford Ctr, OH$10,000112024
Grace Communion InternationalLemon Grove, CA$10,000112022
Graves Piano & Organ CoColumbus, OH$10,000112022
Lower Lights Christian Health CenteColumbus, OH$10,000112021
Marysville Art LeagueMarysville, OH$10,000112022
The Congregational Church of Excelsior Endowment FundExcelsior, MN$10,000112022
Union County Juvenile CourtMarysville, OH$10,000112023
Heartland High SchoolColumbus, OH$9,000112024
Melissa Rosha PotterPataskala, OH$8,500112023
Sweetwater Sound Holdings LLCFort Wayne, IN$8,194112022
NAMI Mid-OhioDelaware, OH$7,500112022
Darby Creek Golf CourseMarysville, OH$7,168112024
Union County Personal Needs PantryMarysville, OH$7,100112024
Marysville Food Pantry IncMarysville, OH$7,000112024
Conroy Coatings & Restoration LLCColumbus, OH$6,699112024
Celebrity Hats & T-ShirtsMarysville, OH$6,640112024
Lower Lights Christian Health Center IncColumbus, OH$6,500112024
Quintessence LLCOwasso, OK$6,250112022
Asbury United Methodist ChurchDelaware, OH$6,100112024
Union County Daily DigitalMarysville, OH$6,000112024
Loving Care Hospice IncMarysville, OH$5,750112024
First Presbyterian ChurchMarysville, OH$5,744112022
She Dreams AgainPlain City, OH$5,637112024
Recreation Unlimited FoundationAshley, OH$5,130112024
First Presbyterian ChurchMarysville, OH$5,099112024

22 of 64 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 9 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 64 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Food & Nutrition
4 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Religion
3 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
3 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$622,914$25,000
202232$577,764$11,500
202317$640,242$10,000
202437$709,658$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

90% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Ohio
$2.3M
Colorado
$75K
Florida
$69K
Indiana
$34K
Michigan
$30K
Iowa
$14K
Virginia
$10K
California
$10K

Down to the city

Marysville, OH
$1.7M
Reynoldsburg, OH
$182K
Westerville, OH
$98K
Richwood, OH
$88K
Columbus, OH
$79K
Lone Tree, CO
$75K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsColumbus Foundation9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsUnited Way of Union County Inc5 shared recipientsBernice R Shanklin Charitable Foundation3 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,942 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Community Foundation of Union Count's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 126 N Main St Po Box 608, Marysville, OH, 43040.

EIN 31-0628641 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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