· Private foundation
Kretz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| VILLAGE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE | $2,500 |
| HENRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| VICTORY TEMPLE SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS | $1,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $1,000 |
| MALACHI HOUSE | $1,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| BLESSING HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Kretz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 84%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OLOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +46%
- ACACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +57%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $21k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SRSTRONGSVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · 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.
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.
Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
To transform lives by providing exceptional, accessible, and compassionate healthcare experiences for all.
Providing essential services that remove barriers, strengthens families, and promotes healing when children need healthcare.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
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…
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…
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
Mission: providence house protects at-risk children and supports families through crisis, strengthening communities to end child abuse and neglect.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 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.
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 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 VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds STRONGSVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE METANOIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CLEVELAND WEST ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kretz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kretz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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