· Private foundation
Goerlich Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $17,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL | $13,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEMOPHILIA TREATMENT | $9,000 |
| NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FDN | $9,000 |
| AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY INST ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN | $4,000 |
| CHABAD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER | $2,000 |
| SIGHT CENTER OF NW OHIO | $2,000 |
| BEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| WGTE PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
| ST THOMAS MOORE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +139%
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +18%
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEMOPHILIAone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF BISCAYNE BAY INCone grant, 2022 · $6k
- HFHEMOPHILIA FEDERATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -19%
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.
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…
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Toledo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BISCAYNE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds AREA STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEMOPHILIA FEDERATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOKERY BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · The O-I Charities Foundation · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward Lamb Foundation Inc · Jocarno Fund · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Goerlich 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Area Stage Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Rookery Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% 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.