· Private foundation
Moerlein Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Moerlein Family Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year Moerlein Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $7k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI FREESTORE FOODBANK | $1,350 |
| WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL | $650 |
| BISHOP NOLL INSTITUTE | $650 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $600 |
| RAINFOREST | $600 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| CINCINNATI OFF ROAD ASSISTANCE | $250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $250 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $250 |
| PURDUE | $250 |
| CU | $250 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION | $200 |
| WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $150 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- WJWORLD JUSTICE PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -4%
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.
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Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
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How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- 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 WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ALLIES 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Moerlein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moerlein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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