· Private foundation
Cole 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TERRA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| RITZ THEATRE | $1,257 |
| EAST GREEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| NOAH FOUNDATION | $300 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| SENECA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $250 |
| TIFFIN RIGHT TO LIFE | $250 |
| TIFFIN BAND BOOSTERS | $135 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| FACT OF SENECA CTY | $100 |
| VILLAGE OF BLOOMVILLE BLOCK PARTY | $50 |
| REPUBLIC LIONS CLUB | $50 |
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 (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
50 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $985 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
- TUTiffin University5× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +27%
- HUHeidelberg University4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +5%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SCSENECA COUNTY CEO PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BUBLOOMVILLE UCC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
- OFOHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -28%
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.
Mission: to inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy. vision: igniting passion to transform lives.
To solicit contributions from the corporate community and private foundations on behalf of 33 member-college/universities that serve nearly 80,000 students. members are nonprofit, privately controlled, 4-year colleges/universities…
Ohio state innovation foundation ("osif") is a not-for-profit ohio corporation formed to manage intellectual property developed at or created by the ohio state university ("osu") and to facilitate the commercialization of such intellectual…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
The Wright State University Foundation's mission is to partner with Wright State University in providing funding that assists students from the Dayton region and beyond to obtain an affordable, quality education by: 1) promoting and…
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Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
Mercy College, a Catholic institution with a focus on healthcare, educates and inspires students to lead and serve in the global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tiffin Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 136 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 TERRA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN SENECA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN EARTH LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
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: National Machinery Foundation Inc · Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation · Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable · Webster Foundation Inc · The Pruina Corporation · Seneca Industrial & Economic Development Corp · Columbus Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cole 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.