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Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionInternationalRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$56k32%
FY202418$53k17%
FY202319$46k21%
FY202229$96k45%
FY202114$17k14%
FY202017$21kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$55kHealth$50kPhilanthropy$44kCrime & Legal$40kArts & Culture$34kReligion$21kInternational$14kAnimals$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Education for Every Person$27,00063%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$15,00030%
St Xavier High School Inc$15,0006n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$14,00040%
Neu Global Inc$12,5005n/a
Chase College Foundation$11,00063%
The Dragonfly Foundation$6,00020%
Oak Hills Local School District$5,0001n/a
Bridgetown Youth Athletic Accoc$5,00015%
Tristate Noah Project$5,00032%
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All grantees of Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Education for Every Person$27,00063%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$15,00030%
St Xavier High School Inc$15,0006n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$14,00040%
Neu Global Inc$12,5005n/a
Chase College Foundation$11,00063%
The Dragonfly Foundation$6,00020%
Oak Hills Local School District$5,0001n/a
Bridgetown Youth Athletic Accoc$5,00015%
Tristate Noah Project$5,00032%
La Soupe Inc$5,00010%
Raptor Inc$3,50060%
ProKids$2,50020%
Live Like Maya Foundation$2,00011%
Homeless Animal Rescue Team$2,00011%
Lovelikejj$2,00013%
Shine Like Sable$2,0001n/a
May We Help Inc$2,00010%
Children of the Night$2,00060%
The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation$1,00010%
Xavier Jesuit Academy$1,0001n/a
Friars Club Inc$1,00010%
The First Step Home Inc$1,00010%
Fighting Chance Rescue$1,00011%
Mind Your Mental Inc$1,0001n/a
Coverd Greater Cincinnati$50010%
Jewish Discovery Center of Ohio$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Education for Every Person: $27,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChase College Foundation: $11,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetThe Dragonfly Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBridgetown Youth Athletic Accoc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTristate Noah Project: $5,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLa Soupe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRaptor Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetProKids: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLive Like Maya Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHomeless Animal Rescue Team: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLovelikejj: $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMay We Help Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren of the Night: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriars Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe First Step Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFighting Chance Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCoverd Greater Cincinnati: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Justin R Niklas Family Foundation · The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Farmer Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee

How much does Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee give?
Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee reported 20 grants totaling $55,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Education for Every Person ($27k), Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ($15k), St Xavier High School Inc ($15k).
Does Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation, Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation.
Where is Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee based?
Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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