· Private foundation
Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of BENJAMIN J AND JENNIFER R SCHLATER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DAMASCUS | $25,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DAMASCUS | $5,000 |
| ST HILARY PARISH | $1,500 |
| ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL | $1,051 |
| ST HILARY PARISH | $1,050 |
| H2O FOUNDATIONS INC | $1,000 |
| H2O FOUNDATIONS INC | $1,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $268k
- RLReal Life Catholic2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +38%
- CYCATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMPDAMASCUS3× · 2020–2023 · $31k
Funded once
- SHST HILARY PARISH & SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $6k
- SCST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- JBJULIE BILLIART SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
Provide scholarships for construction careers
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Youth for christ is a non-denominational, youth-centered, christian association of churches that aims to participate in the body of christ in responsible evangelism of youth.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Coats for kids-cleveland (cfk) is a non-profit organization that provides new coats to children in need in northeast ohio in cooperation with school districts and other local charitable organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Northern Ohio Golf Charities 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.
12 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. 12 of the 27 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 Real Life Catholic ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds H2O FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds FAIRLAWN COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds PJS FROM GRANDMA INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation 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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