· Private foundation
Giving Well Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION | $15,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,043 |
| CARROLL COUNTY HEALTH DEPT | $5,000 |
| THE HAVEN OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY HEALTH DEPT | $225 |
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Giving Well Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Mount Union3× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +36%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +73%
- CCCARROLL COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- KFKSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
- CCCARROLL COUNTY JR FAIR FICone grant, 2021 · $11k
- SOStewards of Kleinstuckone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -96%
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.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Portage Lake environment preservation
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
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…
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
To protect and restore water quality and habitats of the tinkers creek watershed through community partnerships. the tinker's creek watershed drains 96.4 square miles and is the largest tributary to the cuyahoga river. the watershed area…
Preserving and enhancing the scenic and environmental quality of the ecosystem of the chagrin river, lake erie and other ohio watersheds in a manner which assures a sustainable future for people, plants and animals.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
Little Traverse Conservancy protects land in northern Michigan by owning it as Nature Preserves and Working Forest Reserves, and through Conservation Easements (perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 82 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 University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stewards of Kleinstuck ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OHIO PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MANTUA RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Giving Well Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving Well Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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