· Community foundation
New Bremen Foundation Inc
The mission of the new bremen foundation is to provide funds to support scientific, literary, educational, religious, or governmental organizations, or towards other charitable activity in or affecting the new bremen area (within a 200-mile radius of the village of new bremen, ohio).
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.
The 13 grants below total $756,143 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $934,242 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $178,099 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BREMEN LOCAL SCHOOLS | $191,595 |
| AUGLAIZE COUNTY LIBRARIES | $153,206 |
| FIRST NATIONAL BANK | $119,238 |
| RAY'S REFRIGERATION INC | $70,581 |
| NEW KNOXVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $46,861 |
| AUGLAIZE MERCER YMCA | $43,833 |
| GAMETIME CO DWA RECREATION INC | $39,279 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH | $20,860 |
| ST PAUL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $13,690 |
| LOCK ONE COMMUNITY ARTS | $13,000 |
| NEW BREMEN NEW KNOXVILLE ROTARY CLUB | $7,500 |
| ARTS PLACE | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 5% of New Bremen Foundation Inc’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, 97% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 90% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -35% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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
- AYAUGLAIZEMERCER YMCA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $88k · revenue ×16 · 29% of their budget
- LOLOCK ONE COMMUNITY ARTS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +45%
- GLGRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES2× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- NKNEW KNOXVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.7M
- HDHA DORSTEN INCone grant, 2020 · $361k
- LSLMC SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $99k
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.
for the collection and preservation of the history of New Bremen
Museum
Maintain historical society
To collect and preserve any and all historic materials books artifacts machinery etc.
The purpose of the organization is to do all in its power to collect all the available historical material connected with or associated with the history of newcomerstown, ohio and carefully to preserve the same. the objectives shall…
Non profit historical society
Promotion of the arts.
The collection, preservation and display of historical materials concerning the city of north ridgeville, ohio. the acquisition, marking and maintenance of suitable museums and places of historic interest.
Operate and Maintain a Community Park
None
The purpose of the organization shall be to promote public interest in memorial park's historic, educational, cultural, recreational and natural assets. it is organized exclusively for charitable purposes to assist in sustaining memorial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton History and the most unlike its peers is New Knoxville Community Park Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 48 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 NEW KNOXVILLE COMMUNITY PARK ASSOC ↗
- Who funds AUGLAIZEMERCER YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCK ONE COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RANGER ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds ARTS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK &MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW BREMEN GERMAN TOWNSHIP FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NEW BREMEN-NEW KNOXVILLE 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: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 New Bremen Foundation Inc 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.
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