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Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Foundation at a glance

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Jim & Vanita Oelschlager 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$5.4MEducation$3.7MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPhilanthropy$394kHuman Services$250kReligion$233kPublic Safety & Disaster$195kYouth Development$112kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION$175,000
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION$40,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$5,000
JOQ ARNOLD EDUCATIONAL FUND$3,000
THE OAK CLINIC$1,000
GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL BSA$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA: $100k → 14%CHESTNUT RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $100k → 10%PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 10%NEOMED FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $600k → 13%LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION: $40k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CHESTNUT RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $50k → 10%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $335k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION: $30k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC: $25k → 17%NORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $60k → 14%STAHLSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25k → 10%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $175k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION: $30k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC: $25k → 17%NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW: $50k → 14%STAHLSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%MT UNION: $15k → 13%NORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $30k → 14%SUMMA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 13%JULIE BILLIART SCHOOL: $50k → 17%SUMMA FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CLEVELAND: $250k → 17%AKRON GENERAL HOSPITAL: $383k → 13%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL: $51k → 13%AKRON GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 13%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL: $50k → 13%AKRON-CANTON FOOD BANK: $20k → 13%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL: $10k → 13%UNITED WAY: $100k → 13%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF AKRON: $60k → 13%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF AKRON: $30k → 13%UNITED WAY: $10k → 13%REVERE SCHOOLS: $50k → 13%OAK CLINIC: $710k → 13%OAK CLINIC: $450k → 13%OAK CLINIC: $333k → 13%OAK CLINIC: $100k → 13%SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM: $75k → 13%MONTROSE ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50k → 13%MONTROSE ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50k → 13%MONTROSE ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MA
OH
PA
CA
AZ
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 22 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
22

Total granted

$9.5M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+14%

Still filing today

45%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +17%
  • TO
    THE OAK CLINIC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue ×20
  • SM
    SIERRA MADRE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $264k · revenue +545%

Funded once

  • SH
    SUMMA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1.3M
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +152%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
5
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
6
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sierra Madre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONSUMMA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · OtherSUMMA HEALTH FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $940,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AKRONAKRON GENERAL HOSPITAL: $482,900 · OtherAKRON GENERAL HOSPITAL+26 more: $1,149,950 · Other+26 moreDENISON UNIVERSITY: $3,030,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATIO…+4 more: $127,000 · EducationTHE OAK CLINIC: $1,604,372 · HealthTHE OAK CLINICRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $250,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HO…+2 more: $7,000 · HealthSIERRA MADRE FOUNDATION: $263,700 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,100 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $16,860 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,572,850Education$3,407,000Health$1,861,372Philanthropy$363,800Recreation & Sports$150,000Animals$100,000Arts & Culture$21,860

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $3,030,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OAK CLINIC: $1,604,372 over 6y, 23% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,100 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $61,100 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBonyos Kenya Mission fka Care Kenya Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $16,860 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorton Music Boosters Association: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUHEGAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE OAK CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA MADRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Bonyos Kenya Mission fka Care Kenya Inc ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC ↗
  • Who funds Norton Music Boosters Association ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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