· Private foundation
Geotrac Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS | $85,248 |
| FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $47,700 |
| FIRELANDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY | $32,968 |
| THE CHAPEL | $30,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NORWALK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $12,000 |
| NORWALK ARTS CENTER | $12,000 |
| ARTISTS' OPEN STUDIO INC | $10,000 |
| NORWALK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| FUTURE INNOVATORS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITAS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| HURON COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| KINDERCASA PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORWALK BIDDY FOOTBALL LLC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- FSFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $372k · revenue +9%
- TLTEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS8× · 2017–2024 · $269k · revenue +12% · 45% of their budget
- FFFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $144k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- NANORWALK AREA UNITED FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +46%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ATANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -29% · 30% of their budget
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.
Promote huron county, ohio business
Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio
The westerville symphony at otterbein university provides symphonic performances to audiences in central ohio and music education in westerville and the surrounding communities.
To assure the protection and stewardship of one of ohio's largest wetlands; to facilitate wetland conservation and restoration efforts in the more than 15,000 acres contiguous to and including the conservancy property; to increase research…
The goal is to promote all types of agriculture in the county and surrounding areas during the year and finalizing with the seven day fair.
The organization's mission is to develop positive and productive life skills through group interaction in the natural environment. it is their wish that each camper grow in appreciation, respect, and knowledge of oneself, their peers,…
To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To stimulate school and community interest in athletic programs of the norwalk public schools. to foster friendly association and cooperation among school administration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firelands Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is South Central Band Boosters. 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 21 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% 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 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORWALK AREA UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds ANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NORWALK BIDDY FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABIGAIL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOPE CENTER ↗
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 Twenty First Century Foundation · The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation · Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Infinity Trust · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Huron County Community Foundation · The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Geotrac Charitable 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.