· Private foundation
John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ARTIST OPEN STUDIO | $10,000 |
| FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HURON COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NORWALK AREA FRIENDS FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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