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Gorman 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE THEATER | $98,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| EAA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TAKING ROOTS FARM | $50,000 |
| NCSC FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $30,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $25,000 |
| OHIO BIRD SACTUARY | $25,000 |
| 3RD STREET CLINIC | $25,000 |
| BEECHCRAFT HERITAGE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| RICHLAND SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC ARTS | $25,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ASHBROOK CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE STORE | $20,000 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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
- OBOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +3%
- TFTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY FAIR GROUNDSone grant, 2022 · $51k
- PHPEARL HARBOR AV MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $50k
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 air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
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.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Air Force Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mansfield Aviation Club. 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 48 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.
50 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. 50 of the 127 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 ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Beechcraft Heritage Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Richland School of Academic Arts ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL OH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION 9 INC ↗
- Who funds Vintage Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD AVIATION CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
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: Richland County Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · The Milliron Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ford S N & Ada Fund Pfdn · Ebs Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation
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 Gorman 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.
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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