The William Swanston Charitable Fund
Youngstown, OH · EIN 34-1273093. Reported 83 grants totalling $1,302,400 to 51 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 The William Swanston Charitable Fund, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P123).
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 42% 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 $13,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $55,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation | Youngstown, OH | $90,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership | Warren, OH | $85,800 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Compass Family and Community Services | Mineral Ridge, OH | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alta Care Group Inc | Youngstown, OH | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Easterseals of Northeast Ohio | Youngstown, OH | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ohio Urban Renaissance | Youngstown, OH | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mahoning County CASA-Gal Program | Youngstown, OH | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shepherd of All Gods Children | Youngstown, OH | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Heart Reach Neighborhood Ministries | Youngstown, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cadence Care Network | Niles, OH | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc | Warren, OH | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| A C T I O N Inc | Youngstown, OH | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Direction Home of Eastern Ohio Inc | Youngstown, OH | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northeast Ohio Adoption Services | Warren, OH | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tri County Jobs for Ohios Graduates | Akron, OH | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Potential Development Program | Youngstown, OH | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Youngstown Edison Incubator Corporation | Youngstown, OH | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Helms Foundation | Warren, OH | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beatitude House | Canfield, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Legal Aid Services Inc | Akron, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahoning County Health Department | Youngstown, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Youngstown Oh | Youngstown, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youngstown Area Jewish Federation | Youngstown, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Know Your Neighbor Block Watch | Youngstown, OH | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Educational Service Center of Eastern Ohio | Canfield, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahoning Valley College Access Program Inc | Warren, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mayerson Academy | Cincinnati, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oh Wow the Roger & Gloria Jones Childrens Center for Science & Tec | Youngstown, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sister Jeromes Schools Inc | Youngstown, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Smith Township | Sebring, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ursuline Sisters Mission | Canfield, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vision to Learn | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thrive Mahoning Valley | Youngstown, OH | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio | Wooster, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Associated Neighborhood Centers | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center of Akron | Akron, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Commission for Jewish Education of Greater Youngstown | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Thevalley | Boardman, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fjc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kent State University Foundation | Kent, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lifeact | Chagrin Falls, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Returning Citizens Inc | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Trumbull County | Warren, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Youngstown City Schools | Youngstown, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sight for All United Inc | Struthers, OH | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Axess Family Services Inc | Ravenna, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trumbull County Youth Organization | Niles, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Will Respect Inc | Youngstown, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fossil Ledges Animal Education Center | Southington, OH | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 51 (43%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley
PROGRAM SUPPORT; HEALTHY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 51 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 | $287,000 | $17,500 |
| 2022 | 22 | $326,600 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $358,800 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $330,000 | $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
96% 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 $13,000 -- 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 The William Swanston Charitable Fund'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 201 East Commerce Street 150, Youngstown, OH, 44503.
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