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Geotrac Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Geotrac Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$369k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$477kEducation$411kYouth Development$343kHealth$151kCommunity Improvement$58kRecreation & Sports$54kReligion$51kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITAS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
NORWALK BIDDY FOOTBALL LLC$10,000
NORWALK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
FUTURE INNOVATORS$10,000
KINDERCASA PRESCHOOL$10,000
ARTISTS' OPEN STUDIO INC$10,000
HURON COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $3k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $3k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $3k → 11%ANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER: $20k → 13%PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%ABIGAIL MINISTRIES: $4k → 13%THE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 24 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$1.5M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+3%

Still filing today

38%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FS
    FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $372k · revenue +9%
  • TL
    TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $269k · revenue +12% · 45% of their budget
  • FF
    FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $144k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORWALK AREA UNITED FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • AT
    ANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -29% · 30% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Huron County Growth Partnership

Promote huron county, ohio business

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2
Huron County Development Council

Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio

Community Improvement
3
Westerville Symphony At Otterbein

The westerville symphony at otterbein university provides symphonic performances to audiences in central ohio and music education in westerville and the surrounding communities.

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4
Norwalk High School Parents Club
Education
5
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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6
Winous Point Marsh Conservancy

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…

Environment
7
Ohio County & Independent Fairs Highland County

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Northeast Ohio 4-H Camps Inc

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,…

Youth Development
9
Norwalk Harbor Keeper
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10
Norwalk Historical Society Inc

To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.

Arts & Culture
11
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

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.

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12
Norwalk High School Atheltic Booste

To stimulate school and community interest in athletic programs of the norwalk public schools. to foster friendly association and cooperation among school administration.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firelands Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 48 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $372,466 · OtherFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $143,500 · OtherFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKINDERCASA PRESCHOOL: $57,500 · OtherNORWALK CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $48,000 · OtherTHE CHAPEL: $42,500 · OtherNORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC: $42,150 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $41,400 · Other+26 more: $348,822 · Other+26 moreTEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS: $268,673 · EducationTEEN LEADERSHIP CORP…FIRELANDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $32,968 · EducationFIRELANDS MONTESSORI…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationHURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES: $57,500 · Community ImprovementARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC: $46,505 · Arts & CultureFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLIFEWISE INC: $42,250 · Youth DevelopmentWILLARD HOPE CENTER: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesSTEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION: $4,800 · Human ServicesABIGAIL MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO: $1,500 · Human ServicesNORWALK AREA UNITED FUND: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,201,338Education$303,641Community Improvement$57,500Arts & Culture$49,505Youth Development$46,250Human Services$37,300Philanthropy$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $372,466 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetTEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS: $268,673 over 8y, 45% of budgetFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $143,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetHURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES: $57,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC: $46,505 over 6y, 13% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $42,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC: $42,150 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFIRELANDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $32,968 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetANSWERING THE CALL TOGETHER INC: $19,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetFIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORWALK BIDDY FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetWHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION: $4,800 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWILLARD HOPE CENTER: $4,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetABIGAIL MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLOVE GROWS LOVE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSouth Central Band Boosters: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK BIDDY FOOTBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLARD HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABIGAIL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE GROWS LOVE ↗

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 Twenty First Cent…The Gerard and Patric…The Albert G & Olive …John F & Doris E Erns…Price-Downey-Buckland…Premier Bank Foundati…Infinity TrustThe Michelle Wightman…Huron County Communit…The Mylander Fdn-2001Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…
The Twenty First Century FoundationOH30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Geotrac Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geotrac Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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