· Private foundation
Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of ETHEL AND SAM GARBER FOUNDATION MARTIN WOLF TRUSTEE’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW | $6,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVER OF CINCINNNATI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION FOR EVERY PERSON | $5,000 |
| LA SOUP INC | $5,000 |
| LAWERS CLUB OF CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NEU GLOBAL | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL STUTTERING PROJECT | $2,000 |
| CHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MIND YOUR MENTAL | $1,000 |
| MYLES AHEAD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| UNIVER OF CINCINNNATI FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +74%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +3%
- CCCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +387%
Funded once
- BYBRIDGETOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ACCOCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +47%
- AAALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- OHOAK HILLS LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
We rescue orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens.
Josh cares provides companionship and comfort to children hospitalized in critical care units at childrens' hospital who are alone. josh cares fellows serve as surrogates for, and as links to, the families who would be by their childrens'…
To create generative and therapeutic opportunities and locations for adults, teens, children, and animals that indend to empower, heal and nurture.
To provide affordable, high-quality veterinary care to allow individuals and families of limited means to enjoy benefits of healthy and responsible pet ownership. Anyone who wants to share a loving home with a pet should have access to…
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
Cause for Canines is a 501c3, all-breed dog rescue in Columbus, Ohio ran solely by volunteers. In 2025, we rescued and adopted out 66 dogs.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To reduce the number of homeless cats and dogs in greater cincinnati by providing a compassionate, no-kill animal shelter and programs that promote responsible pet care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The First Step Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridgetown Youth Athletic Accoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 Jewish Education for Every Person ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGETOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ACCOC ↗
- Who funds TRISTATE NOAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELIKEJJ ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE MAYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friars Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME 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: 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
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 Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee 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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