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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 you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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.

show:

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

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you 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

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

  • 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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.

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…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public University Foundatio…Public School District Foun…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 55 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr20%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr20%62%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,281

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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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 you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $3,030,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OAK CLINIC — $1,604,372 over 6y, 23% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC — $250,000 over 1y, 6.8% 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
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 DENISON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE OAK CLINIC
  • Who funds SIERRA MADRE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC
  • 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 HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC

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.

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

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 Jim & Vanita Oelschlager 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc4% 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jim & Vanita Oelschlager Foundation?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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