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Goecke Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARE FOR FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| RAZOM INC | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| STELLA MARIS INC | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $1,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OSU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STELLA MARIS INC | $500 |
| FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC | $500 |
| DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC | $500 |
| SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SMSTELLA MARIS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $302k · revenue +172%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +45%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- RRROCKY RIVER CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SIST ISABEL PARISH IN SANIBEL INCone grant, 2023 · $3k
- RRROCKY RIVER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion,…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa St Benedict and the most unlike its peers is Westlake Chinese Culture Association. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 31 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 STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CCAI ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds RHONDA'S KISS ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE MANOR ↗
- Who funds OneSky ↗
- Who funds VILLA ST BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta · John P Murphy Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Goecke Family 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
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.
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