· Private foundation
Moerlein 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI FREESTORE FOODBANK | $1,350 |
| BISHOP NOLL INSTITUTE | $650 |
| WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL | $650 |
| RAINFOREST | $600 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $600 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $500 |
| ST JUDE | $350 |
| CINCINNATI OFF ROAD ASSISTANCE | $250 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $250 |
| PURDUE | $250 |
| CU | $250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $250 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION | $200 |
| WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $150 |
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 (FY22–25, $607) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC4× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +1%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA2× · 2024–2025 · $750 · revenue +4%
Funded once
- GGOFUNDMEORGone grant, 2022 · $550 · revenue -70%
- WAWHHS ALUMNI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $500
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -29%
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.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
Fair trade usa is building an innovative model of responsible business, conscious consumerism, and shared value to eliminate poverty and enable a sustainable development for farmers, workers, their families, and communities around the…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. witness is working towards a world where the communities we center, serve, and support can safely and effectively use video and technology to end human…
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Little Allies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Moerlein 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.