Sandusky County Communities
Fremont, OH · EIN 20-8314921. Reported 56 grants totalling $1,787,254 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Sandusky County Communities, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 24% 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.
- How much its list changes. 9% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,512 and $21,723; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $427,726. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes Community Action Partnership | Fremont, OH | $433,026 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo Inc | Toledo, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Joseph Catholic Church | Fremont, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sara Barbour Mem Scholar Fund | Fremont, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bishop Hoffman Catholic School | Fremont, OH | $83,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library and Museums | Fremont, OH | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Firelands Habitat for Humanity | Sandusky, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Imentor Chicago | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Fremont Oh | Fremont, OH | $35,995 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Church | Fremont, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Fremont | Fremont, OH | $28,505 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Christian Church | Temperance, MI | $26,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $25,501 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sandusky County Communitiesfoundation | Fremont, OH | $21,800 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center | Fremont, OH | $21,723 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Birchard Public Library of Sandusky County | Fremont, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northwest Christian Church | Temperance, MI | $16,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sandco Industries | Clyde, OH | $15,647 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fellowship of Catholic University S | Golden, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandusky County Ems | Fremont, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA Sandusky County | Fremont, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandusky County Agricultural Societ | Fremont, OH | $14,022 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bishop Hoffman Catholic Schools | Fremont, OH | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Fire Sandusky County | Fremont, OH | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Promedica Foundation | Toledo, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Read to Them Inc | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sandusky County Historical Society | Fremont, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village of Woodville | Woodville, OH | $9,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lindsey Volunteer Fire Department | Lindsey, OH | $9,530 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandusky Township Fire Department | Fremont, OH | $9,512 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amateur Radio Emergency Service Sandusky County | Tiffin, OH | $9,438 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Liberty Center of Sandusky County | Fremont, OH | $9,150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sandusky County Positive People | Fremont, OH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Fremont, OH | $8,690 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Stemtown Historical Society | Green Springs, OH | $8,555 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Clyde Oh | Clyde, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pontifex Inc | Fremont, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fremont Community Theater and Literary Society | Fremont, OH | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sandusky County Park District | Fremont, OH | $7,512 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Fire | Fremont, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies | Fremont, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Village of Green Springs | Green Springs, OH | $6,690 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bellevue Historical Society and Heritage Museum | Bellevue, OH | $6,394 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pontifex Inc | Fremont, OH | $6,320 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Sandusky County | Fremont, OH | $5,616 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fremont Rotary Foundation Inc | Fremont, OH | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sandusky County Park District | Fremont, OH | $5,471 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sandusky Twp Fire Department | Fremont, OH | $5,307 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Liberty Center of Sandusky County Inc | Fremont, OH | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
5 of 49 (10%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 49 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $689,784 | $8,696 |
| 2022 | 12 | $361,430 | $9,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $156,383 | $9,975 |
| 2024 | 20 | $579,657 | $13,161 |
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
93% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- 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 Sandusky County Communities'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: 2511 Countryside Dr Suite C, Fremont, OH, 43420.
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