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Gillmer Kroehle Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$175kAnimals$145kArts & Culture$109kHuman Services$53kEducation$44kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$19kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIME BANK MAHONING WATERSHED$20,000
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
THE BUMMER FUND CO SUSAN SEXTON$5,000
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$4,000
TNT TRUMBULL NEW THEATRE$4,000
WARREN HERITAGE CENTER$3,500
HOWLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,500
FRIENDS OF FIDO$3,000
TRUMBULL ART GALLERY$3,000
NATIONAL PACKARD MUSEUM$3,000
GEAUGA RESCUE VILLAGE HUMANE SOCIET$2,000
CALVARY BAPTIST$2,000
CAMP SUNRISE$2,000
CHESAPEAKE REGION SAFETY COUNCIL$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FORBES HOUSE: $1k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $3k → 9%CAMP SUNRISE: $2k → 11%FORBES HOUSE: $1k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $2k → 9%CAMP SUNRISE: $2k → 11%PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$685k · 39 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
9

Total granted

$685k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+4%

Still filing today

33%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • TA
    TRUMBULL ART GALLERY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    TRUMBULL COUNTY ADAPTIVE BASEBALL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +52% · 100% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FIDO INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • HP
    HUBBARD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • TP
    THE PERRY CENTER OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Humane Animal Rescue

We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…

Animals
2
The Senior Dog Sanctuary

To provide a safe haven for senior dogs that are abandoned, abused, or face euthanasia who are unable to be cared for by their owners.

Animals
3
Animal Charity of Ohio Inc

The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.

Animals
4
Twin Cities Pet Rescue

Our mission is to rescue abandoned, homeless, abused, neglected and otherwise unwanted dogs and cats, with the ultimate goal of finding each one a stable and loving forever home

Animals
5
Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary

To care for abused and neglected farm animals, to perserve the land, to educate the public about animal protestion and environmental ethics and to advocate for a compassionate society.

Animals
6
Toledo Humane Society

Prevention/treatment of cruelty to animals

Animals
7
God's Dogs Rescue

Animal rescue

Human Services
8
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
9
Save a Dog Inc

To help adoptive dogs find a permanent home.

Animals
10
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
11
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
12
Wagging Tails Rescue

Rescuing homeless dogs and abandoned dogs from high-kill shelters and owner surrenders.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Trumbull County and the most unlike its peers is Trumbull County Adaptive Baseball Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterPerforming Arts Organizatio…Healthcare System Foundatio…Professional Trade Associat…Special Needs & Alternative…Youth Sports OrganizationsSenior and Disabled Housing
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr19%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%70%10–20yr15%2%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr19%12%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
1,563/12,474

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIME BANK MAHONING WATERSHED INC — $174,750 · OtherTIME BANK MAHONING WATERSHED INCANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF — $61,000 · OtherANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OFNATIONAL PACKARD MUSEUM — $57,250 · OtherNATIONAL PACKARD MUSEUMTHE BUMMER FUND CO SUSAN SEXTON — $41,000 · OtherTHE BUMMER FUND CO SUSAN SEXTONTNT — $33,000 · OtherTNTIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherALLEGHENY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,500 · Other+30 more — $181,750 · Other+30 moreANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $32,000 · AnimalsMCQE MOBILE PET PANTRY INC MCQE MOBILE PET PANTRY — $1,500 · Animals+2 more — $1,500 · AnimalsTRUMBULL ART GALLERY — $19,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUMBULL NEW THEATRE INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureTRUMBULL COUNTY ADAPTIVE BASEBALL INC — $14,500 · Recreation & Sports4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SUNRISE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesFORBES HOUSE — $2,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY — $9,000 · EducationHIRAM COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $6,750 · Health
Other$595,250Animals$35,000Arts & Culture$32,000Recreation & Sports$14,500Human Services$13,500Education$10,000Health$6,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $32,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTRUMBULL ART GALLERY — $19,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTRUMBULL COUNTY ADAPTIVE BASEBALL INC — $14,500 over 9y, 100% of budgetFRIENDS OF FIDO INC — $14,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $6,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY — $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNRISE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChesapeake Region Safety Council Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORBES HOUSE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCQE MOBILE PET PANTRY INC MCQE MOBILE PET PANTRY — $1,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIRAM COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
  • Who funds TRUMBULL ART GALLERY
  • Who funds TRUMBULL COUNTY ADAPTIVE BASEBALL INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FIDO INC
  • Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE CURE STARTS NOW INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY
  • Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC
  • Who funds CAMP SUNRISE INC
  • Who funds THE TRUMBULL NEW THEATRE INC
  • Who funds INTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC
  • Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds THE PIGGYBACK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Chesapeake Region Safety Council 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.

The Wm M & a Cafaro Family FoundationOH19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Gillmer Kroehle 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Chesapeake Region Safety Council Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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