· Private foundation
John F & Doris E Ernsthausen 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORWALK AREA UNITED FUND | $125,000 |
| NORWALK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $70,000 |
| NORWALK CITY SCHOOLS | $70,000 |
| NORWALK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| HURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $19,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ARTIST OPEN STUDIO | $10,000 |
| HURON COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NANORWALK AREA UNITED FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $530k · revenue +46% · 54% of their budget
- HCHURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +69%
- HCHURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NPNORWALK PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $20k
- NANORWALK AREA FRIENDS FOR YOUTH SPORTS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -79%
- TLTEEN LEADERSHIP CORPSone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -11%
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.
Promote huron county, ohio business
Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio
To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.
To facilitate acquistition of real property to be dedicated to use as a public park in the city of bucyrus, ohio.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Norwalk land trust seeks to balance nature and development by acquiring land and preserving it in its natural state for the benefit of norwalk residents and future generations.
Promotion and support of commercial & civic awareness and activities in the greater norwalk area.
Local ballot issue political action committee located in the state of Ohio
The mission of the huron county community foundation is to provide for the enrichment of the quality life in huron county by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a charitable…
Protecting natural areas in Ohio through conservation easements and public education regarding the importance of natural areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clothing Bank of Norwalk Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Artists Open Studio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 NORWALK AREA UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORWALK AREA FRIENDS FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO ↗
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: The Twenty First Century Foundation · Geotrac Charitable Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation · Fisher-Titus Medical Center · 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 John F & Doris E Ernsthausen 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.