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Moritz Family Foundation

The MORITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION serves families and children by providing grants to organizations whose programs redcue poverty and improve education.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$212kInternational$192kHuman Services$85kPhilanthropy$67kHousing & Shelter$44kCommunity Improvement$40kHealth$32kEmployment$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $111,080 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $133,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION$42,500
FAMILY MATTERS INC$20,000
NATUN GUATEMALA$20,000
SISTERS HAVEN$16,080
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTERS HAVEN: $16k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $500 → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $250 → 17%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $500 → 14%ALVIS INC: $10k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $500 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $500 → 17%KINDWAY: $3k → 15%KINDWAY: $3k → 15%FAMILIES FLOURISH INC: $22k → 15%FAMILIES FLOURISH INC DBA MOVE TO: $19k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$499k · 25 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
20

Total granted

$499k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+38%

Still filing today

84%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +17%
  • AA
    ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +67%
  • FF
    FAMILIES FLOURISH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • CC
    CURT'S CAFEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +283%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • FA
    FREEDOM A LA CARTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
5
Cincinnati Development Fund

To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.

Housing & Shelter
6
Ohio Community Development Finance Fund

Finance fund builds bridges between resources and the low-income community to improve the quality of life for people. the organization locates funding and provides resources to support organizations that assist low and moderate income…

Community Improvement
7
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto 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…

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8
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
9
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

—
10
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
11
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland

To provide families facing the crisis of homelessness with a safe place designed to engage, inspire, and guide them toward a future where they feel empowered to control the course of their lives. family promise of greater cleveland…

—
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr18%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
15%
7,479/50,796

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $111,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATIONMARBURN ACADEMY — $62,500 · EducationMARBURN ACADEMYKIPP COLUMBUS — $27,500 · EducationKIPP COLUMBUS+1 more — $500 · EducationCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL — $48,000 · OtherCRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHO…CITY YEAR INC — $15,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL — $11,000 · OtherMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOLLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INCCURT'S CAFE — $18,750 · OtherCURT'S CAFEFREEDOM A LA CART — $15,000 · OtherFREEDOM A LA CARTTHE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF OHIO — $12,500 · OtherTHE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF O…+17 more — $42,920 · Other+17 moreFAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $40,200 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FLOURI…GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $23,750 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTIO…Sisters Haven — $16,080 · Human ServicesSisters HavenALVIS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesALVIS INCTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesKINDWAY — $5,000 · Human Services+4 more — $2,750 · Human ServicesCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $101,450 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDA…ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC — $41,250 · InternationalALDEA ADVANC…NATUN GUATEMALA — $35,000 · InternationalNATUN GUATEM…Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation — $5,000 · InternationalRosshirt Wat…FAMILY MATTERS INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementHeart of Ohio Family Health Centers — $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $4,000 · Health
Education$201,500Other$193,170Human Services$102,780Philanthropy$101,450International$81,250Community Improvement$40,000Health$24,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $111,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $101,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARBURN ACADEMY — $62,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC — $41,250 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $40,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATUN GUATEMALA — $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKIPP COLUMBUS — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $23,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $18,750 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSisters Haven — $16,080 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM A LA CART — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHeart of Ohio Family Health Centers — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF OHIO — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALVIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE — $5,670 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRosshirt Water for Africa Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKINDWAY — $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Columbus FoundationHarry C Moores Founda…Ingram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…Siemer Family Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…L Brands FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Columbus Jewish Found…The Foundation of the…M I Homes FoundationMargaret and Robert W…
Columbus FoundationOH31.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · M I Homes Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation

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 Moritz 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Moritz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moritz Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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