· Private foundation
Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| NEU GLOBAL | $3,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL STUTTERING PROJECT | $2,000 |
| CHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MYLES AHEAD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| XAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| UNIVER OF CINCINNNATI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- AAALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- OHOAK HILLS LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BYBRIDGETOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ACCOCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +47%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LIVE LIKE MAYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds LOVELIKEJJ ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel and Sam Garber Foundation Martin Wolf Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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