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Kretz 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| ST HERMANS HOUSE - FOCUS CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| VILLAGE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE | $2,500 |
| BLESSING HOUSE | $2,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR HOMELE | $2,000 |
| BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 71% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Kretz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OLOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +46%
- ACACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +57%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $21k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- DNDEAN NAKIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
To provide a temporary health care safety net for individuals in need while educating and empowering them to manage their own health, always respecting the dignity of each person we serve. financial support is offered for medications, bus…
Our mission is to foster improved literacy and a love of reading by providing free books to children through collaboration with community partners.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
To build lasting relationships, nurture hope, and restore dignity by creating family-like relationships for cleveland's youth. we connect young adults & young families to groups of committed volunteers from the community, using a national…
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Community health and well being advocate
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is The Kyle Jean-Baptiste Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STRONGSVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE METANOIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CLEVELAND WEST ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OH-GO ↗
- Who funds THE KYLE JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dean Paras Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Kretz 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.